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Andrew Zimmern Is Branching Out
The "Bizarre Foods" TV chef on his new book for young adults, his controversial Chinese restaurant, plus how travel brings out the best in people.
Andrew Zimmern stands in front of a city river
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Andrew Zimmern is the charming, loquacious, appropriately chubby chef and TV personality best known for his ability to consume the weirdest stuff you can imagine, ranging from the unusual (skate wing) to the outrageous (ox blood, starfish). The four-time James Beard-award-winner cheerfully tries anything and everything on Bizarre Foods, but he has also hosted The Zimmern List and Bizarre Foods Delicious Destinations on Travel Channel and Big Food Truck Tip on Food Network.
Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern sits on top of a SUV during a trip to Africa
Zimmern in Africa. (Courtesy Travel Channel)
Zimmern’s mission, of course, is not to gross us out, although that’s undoubtedly part of the appeal, but to introduce us to far-flung cultures via their cuisine. As he says, “We live in a very small world that for the last generation or two has increasingly been defining ourselves by our differences. Instead, we should be defining ourselves by our commonalities.”
Lately he’s expanded his portfolio by writing a book for young adults (AZ and the Lost City of Ophir, co-written with H.E. McElhatton) and by opening “Lucky Cricket,” a Chinese restaurant in his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul. (The latter endeavor raised cries of cultural appropriation when, in offhand remarks, Zimmern knocked Midwestern Chinese takeout joints.) Zimmern’s book features a young explorer named AZ who goes back in time to solve mysteries – in this case, he must guard magic artifacts hidden in an Egyptian pyramid from an arch villain.
The Saturday Evening Post: Where did the idea come from to write a children’s book?
Andrew Zimmern: I have a 13-and-a-half-year-old son. As a young person, I read voraciously. He reads voraciously. I always pushed him towards books filled with lots of learning as well as being fun to read. And then there were a lot of books that were departures from that, such as the ones with too many illustrations, too many fart jokes.
Cover of Andrew Zimmern's book, "A-Z and the Lost City of Ophir". Co-written with H.E. McElhatton
Zimmern’s new children’s book with co-author H.E. McElhatton.
I’m a longtime student of history, so I started to think about what kind of adventure could I send him on where the readers could learn about sociology, anthropology, math, and so on and do it with food as a connector and a good story.
SEP: You’ve said that the protagonist, AZ, is somewhat like you as a boy. He doesn’t listen very well, doesn’t like math, but he’s adventurous and an adventurous eater. In fact, we learn that AZ makes pocket money from other kids who pay to watch him eat gross stuff, like slugs. How autobiographical is the book?
AZ: Well, when I was a kid, when we went on school trips to a farm in Massachusetts, I was the one who ate the tadpoles we would scoop from the pond.
SEP: There’s a playfully subversive quality to the book. At the very start, he’s sneaking chemicals he bought online past his mother and playing tricks on his father.
AZ: I do think that certain character attributes, whether it’s sneakiness or inappropriateness, actually connect with kids, because they’re really thinking those things, as opposed to portraying a sterile kid who never has those thoughts.
SEP: There’s a lot of, let’s just say unusual food referenced in the book, all leading up to the gross-out food challenge at the climax where AZ has to prove himself by consuming a meal of monkey dung pellets, roasted wasps, grasshopper tacos, grub kabob. What is some of the weirdest stuff you’ve eaten?
AZ: It’s always the putrefied or rotten foods that are consumed in many cultures, but not consumed in the modern America of 2019. One of the foods I’ve eaten four or five times that I’ve actually started to develop a taste for are stink-heads, which are predominantly eaten by First Peoples in the Pacific Northwest and the Arctic Circle. They bury fish heads in the wintertime and actually let them rot. If you eat them too soon, the bad bacteria will make you sick. If you let them decompose a little, the bad bacteria is killed by the good bacteria and they become edible.
SEP: On “Bizarre Foods,” when you are stumped by something (such as eating a starfish that you said tasted like “a mouthful of sand”), you have this amazing ability to detach yourself. You’ll casually say, “this setting off the gag reflex” – then you’ll roll it around in your mouth a little more to get the feel of it and finally spit it out. Most people would be retching by that point. Do you have a cast iron stomach?
AZ: Yes, I do. If I couldn’t do that I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing.
SEP: What can be done about kids who are picky eaters?
AZ: I happen to think it’s a cultural phenomenon. Kids are not predisposed to not eat foods. So, you hear: “My kid doesn’t eat fish or vegetables.” But if you go Thailand or Japan, or an African country, children do not have that issue. In fact, as human beings, we are disposed to eat all foods that are good for us. So what happens is, society sends messages that certain foods are gross. And parents are time impoverished, so they default to foods their kid will eat, and they give them the beige meal, french fries and chicken fingers and Texas toast. That’s not in the best interest health-wise for the child.
SEP: How do you break that cycle?
AZ: I found, using my child as social experiment, that putting out a large variety of vegetables and salads and grains on the table with a small amount of meat –not the typical American way of dining — was really beneficial. And my son is now, at 13, a big eater of all things.
SEP: You’ve said that Westerners are wasteful about their food, and you cite the example of tossing out heads of shrimp, which are considered a delicacy in other cultures. What can we learn from other cultures that can help us be less wasteful? And, what are some of the more interesting cultural developments in American food?
AZ: The biggest positive is the nose-to-tail movement in this country, but it’s really not new. It’s the way our grandparents ate. Another thing that’s trending up is the proliferation of farmer’s markets, where, at the end of the season they’re selling 10-pound bags of blemished apples or bruised and less-than-perfect tomatoes for people to make tomato sauce. Those tomatoes, as banged up and bruised as they look, often have the greatest flavor for cooking. And if we can just take that idea and expand it to all the other foods we eat. You know, overripe bananas are ideal for making banana bread. Whole fish, you can make soup from the bones, the best muscles are often found in and around the neck and collar and head of the fish.
SEP: That idea is still a bit far from mainstream.
AZ: If you go to the meat section of an average American supermarket, all you see are individually wrapped portions of the luxury cuts. When I was growing up in the ’60s, in the meat case there were beef shins, there were chicken feet to make stocks and soups from, there were organ meats, because whole animals were coming into butcher shops. Good luck finding beef shins to make soups and stocks with today. Supermarkets are disposing things that don’t look perfect. We live on a planet with limited resources, and we are entering a very challenging next fifty-year period. Climate change is going to radically affect food production. Utilizing every part of the animal is vital. Conserving resources, eating less meat to prevent the ensuing damage to the environment — whether it’s water run-off issues; whether it’s chemicals and pesticides; whether it’s medicines given animals in factory farms that human beings shouldn’t be consuming —all of this is vital.
SEP: You’ve made a career of promoting other cultures, other cuisines, but you got into a messy controversy when you opened a Chinese restaurant “Lucky Cricket” in Minneapolis, then, in an interview, took a shot at Midwestern Chinese takeout joints.
AZ: There are two issues in hand here. The first issue is celebrities saying stupid things. And I regret it. I’ve apologized for it. I’ve made a career out of shining a light on diverse communities and foreign culture, so the idea that my comments were in some cases taken out of context and in some cases, twisted around, that is 100 percent on me. Had I not made a flippant and unintentionally callous remark to begin with, I wouldn’t have to answer this question. So, on issue number one, I’ve apologized. I’m spending this whole month listening and learning, my whole job is to absorb that. There were a lot of people who were hurt by those comments. It absolutely crushes me and there’s not a moment of each day that goes by when I’m not mindful of that.
The second part, is that it’s not okay just to say you’re sorry. You need to actually make amends and try to make the situation right. Right now I’m listening and learning and focusing on doing the best job I can at the restaurant. I love Chinese food, Chinese-American food, and most importantly, I like Chinese and Chinese-American people. I just hope I can do the food justice — food I love almost above all others. It’s important that I go about this the right way, so my apology and my subsequent amends have meaning and that’s what I’m focusing on in the coming weeks.
Andrew Zimmern stands in a Shanghai street.
Zimmern on the streets of Shanghai. (Courtesy Travel Channel)
As far as the cultural appropriation issue of who gets to cook what, that’s a very important conversation to have, but [because of being at the center of the controversy] I don’t want to be a spokesman for anything and make an already difficult situation worse. So for the time being I think it’s best that that conversation go on among the people for whom it’s most important, and I hope in the future to be able to contribute to that.
SEP: You went through a period of drug and alcohol dependency in your younger days. Can you talk about what you learned from that experience and why you’re so open about it?
AZ: I’ve been extremely transparent about my alcoholism and drug addiction because, while I firmly believe my anonymity within the 12-step world is a very important tent pole, I don’t think people have enough folks to point to and say, “Wow that person had a horrific story and they got well.” There’s a hopelessness that sets in with this, not only for the alcoholic or addict but also with their family. Because it’s a family disease, it’s a workplace disease. There’s not a day goes by that on social media, or walking around the streets in whatever city I’m in, that I don’t hear from somebody who says “thank you for that. I’ve passed that message of hope to a loved one who is struggling with that.”
SEP: You once said in an interview that while traveling you “shed your urban American skin.” Why is traveling so important?
AZ: I think human beings are at their best when they’re traveling. They’re more curious, less risk averse, more open to new ideas, more open to talking to people and asking questions; they’re friendlier; their humility is increased. Look, at home, I don’t walk around the Twin Cities talking to people. I know how to get around; language isn’t a barrier. When you’re traveling you’re pushed beyond your comfort zone. You learn things, you grow in empathy and understanding of other cultures and you import that back home, and I think you are the better for it.
SEP: What about when you’re staying at a beach resort?
AZ: I’m fine with a beach vacation; I like to hang out on the beach with a stack of books too. But, I can’t tell you how many friends of mine, when they tell me they are going on a vacation, they name Cancun or another big resort. I’ve been to Cancun half-a-dozen times, so I always ask them, “My God, where did you eat?” And they list off four or five hotels or beach bars — everything that’s in the hotel zone, the beach side of the highway. You know, there are a million people on the other side of the highway, where the food is absolutely breathtaking. If you go to Cancun and your only opportunity to talk to Mexican people and eat Mexican food and expose yourself to Mexican culture is in the hotel zone, then you’re missing out on the best things about the world.
Feature image photo courtesy Travel Channel.
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Anxious People
About the Book
Anxious People
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A MAN CALLED OVE and “writer of astonishing depth” (The Washington Times) comes a poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them --- the bank robber included --- desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.
Rich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness), ANXIOUS PEOPLE is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness and hope --- the things that save us, even in the most anxious times.
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
• Publication Date: September 8, 2020
• Genres: Fiction
• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books
• ISBN-10: 1501160834
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VANCOUVER -- Many Metro Vancouver clinics and pharmacies have seen an increased demand for flu vaccines this fall, but one local doctor says everyone who is able to should still aim to get a shot this year.
CTV Morning Live spoke with family physician Dr. Rhonda Low this week, who says the "jump" in demand is specifically because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some doctors and pharmacies quickly ran out of their preliminary supply, public health ordered 30 per cent more vaccines than in previous years, so stocks are slowly being replenished.
"There should be enough flu shots for everyone that wants one, they'll be able to get one in the next few weeks," Low said Monday. "I definitely recommend that folks get it."
But getting the flu shot might look a little different this year, depending on where it's being given. Some pharmacies are operating by appointment only, rather than by drop-in. Others have a limited number of vaccines that they're issuing each day. Meanwhile some places are still offering walk-ins, it's just best for people to call ahead to know how that location is operating.
Low said the "million dollar question" she gets asked lately is how to tell the difference between COVID-19 symptoms and the flu.
"It's really basically impossible to know without having a test," she said.
Low said both COVID-19 and the flu can cause a fever, body aches, shortness of breath and a dry cough.
However, the incubation period of the flu is quite a bit shorter. Low said people will likely start feeling sick within one to four days of being exposed to the flu.
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Low also said people with the flu will likely feel sickest in the first week. Those with COVID-19 might actually feel sicker two or three weeks after getting the disease.
For anyone second-guessing whether it's worth it to get a vaccine this year, Low said it's especially important during the pandemic.
"This is not the year to blow off getting a flu shot," she said.
Low explained those who get the flu could be more susceptible to also getting COVID-19, because their immune defences would be hindered. But also, if someone has gotten their flu shot and starts exhibiting symptoms, doctors will more easily be able to determine the person could have COVID-19 instead.
And for those worried they'll get the flu from the flu shot? Low said that's not possible, but feeling some symptoms after getting the vaccine could actually be a positive sign.
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"However, especially if it's the first time you get the flu shot, you could have a little bit of a feverish reaction with a few body aches … this is a good sign because it actually tells you that your immune response is really being shored up to bolster good defences."
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GYIK: The game: advanced - atWar
4.1 - Diplomacy
There are 3 possible diplomatic relationship types between players: Peace, War and Alliance.
War is the default relationship - after all, we're here to kick each other's butt, right? When you're in war, you can freely attack your opponent and cannot pass through his troops or defence lines without attacking them.
Peace means you cannot attack without declaring war first - which takes one turn. This gives you some protection against sudden backstabbing. You can freely pass through troops and defence lines.
Alliance offers twice more protection against backstabbing - since it takes 2 turns to change to War. While in alliance, you can send money to each other and see all each other's troops, even those beyond your visibility range. It's also possible to pass empty cities between allies. You can also achieve joint victory, if all opponents have been defeated and only allied players are left. This can also be a way to 'draw' the game.
Changing diplomatic relationship
Open the Players menu and click on some player. A panel would expand, with diplomacy options. Changing relationship to Peace (from War) or to Alliance requires the other player's confirmation. Once the next turn starts, he can either confirm or reject the change.
4.2 - Units
There are 3 kinds of units: land, naval and air. Each unit has its own assigned unit role and specific purpose - designed to be used in offence, or defence, or transportation.
For example, Infantry is 'Ground Main Defence', Submarine is 'Naval Stealth', Spy plane is 'Air Support', etc. These roles are always the same across all the maps, so your upgrades and strategies will affect units on custom maps as well. In addition, there are 'Rare' units (only appear randomly when a city is conquered) and 'Other' role (whatever map creator wishes them to be).
Stealth units are completely invisible to the enemy, until they are detected or participate in a battle. After a battle, put them in one of your cities to make them invisible again.
Transport units can be used to transport troops by land, sea or air.
Some units also have an added bonus when defending in a city or defence line (Infantry, Marines), or defending against a certain unit:
Marines against Infantry
Destroyers and Submarines against Bombers
Submarines against Infantry and Destroyers
Detailed information on units is available in the in-game Units menu and on the Units and Strategies page.
4.3 - Generals / commanders
We decided to put YOU into the game as a General, personally commanding your armies. After a few upgrades (first starting with just 50 SP), General will provide bonus stats to all/certain units in his stack.
You can personalize your General by uploading a custom icon. Go to the Edit profile page, it's right next to the avatar upload.
There are also several rare commanders (similarly giving boost to their stack units), as well as special rare units specializing in assassinating commanders.
Generals are only available to Premium members.
4.4 - Upgrades
You can purchase permanent upgrades in the lobby, using your earned SP. This can unlock additional units or Strategy, or make a small improvement for your current units.
In the list you only see the upgrades you can afford at the moment, plus the required SP for the next cheapest upgrade.
You can see your purchased upgrades in the 'My upgrades' tab in the lobby and in the 'Game' menu when playing.
4.5 - Strategies
Strategies give you a small advantage in some area, while reducing some aspects of other areas. For example, Relentless Attack makes your Tanks faster and more powerful, but also makes your Infantry weaker.
Strategy can be selected in the Lobby or during country selection. More Strategies can be acquired through Upgrades.
4.6 - Stealth detection
4.7 - Rare units
You have a chance to find rare units in captured cities - these range from slightly different types of Tanks to nuclear missiles. Some are more common than others, some can only be found in certain countries. You can set the chance to find rare units in game settings ('none' is also an option).
4.8 - Auto-production
You can set a unit to auto-produce in the City menu or Country menu. Whenever you have available units, this unit will be built (provided you have enough money). City lists in the country menu and the Cities menu ('star' in the top toolbar) show available units or auto-produced unit. Clicking on the unit icon will cancel the auto-production.
There's also an auto-production tab in the Cities menu, where you can cancel all auto-production, put it on hold or execute all orders.
4.9 - Coalitions
What do Coalitions do?
They organize players into groups, giving each their own private forum (with own mods), in-game chat channel and a panel displaying all members (and who's online).
How to start a Coalition?
Starting a Coalition costs 10000 SP. It will be more expensive in the future, so we advise you to use the current opportunity. Go here and fill the simple form. That's basically it.
Joining, applying and inviting
Coalitions can be Free for all, Applications-only or Invitations-only. First one anyone can join, in the second players need to apply for membership (which will be approved/rejected by the Coalition), and in the third membership is by invitations only.
To join a Coalition, visit their page (ex.: http://afterwind.com/cln/cln.php?cln_id=4) and click either 'Join coalition' or 'Apply for membership' under the image, depending on their joining policy.
To invite people to your Coalition, visit their profile and click 'Invite to Coalition' under their avatar. Note that common members can only invite people to Free for all coalitions, otherwise only Leaders and Officers can send invites. You can also disable coalition invites in your settings, if you're not interested.
Leaders, Officers and Founders
Officers have permissions to invite members, apply/reject applications, kick members out and moderate the forum.
Leaders have additional permissions to edit the coalition page and assign/demote Officers.
Founder has additional permission to demote Leaders.
Each player can be a member of only one Coalition (although you can quit it and join another one whenever you like).
4.10 - Coalition Wars
Coalition Wars (CW) is a kind of team game, where instead of teams you have Coalitions. Only two coalitions can participate, minimum 3 players on each side, and a Leader or an Officer must be present on each side. Coalition war game has to be created by a Leader of an Officer in the Coalition Wars room.
Elo rating
Similar to duels, there's a Total Elo rating and Season Elo rating. During a Colition war game the winning coalition will gain Elo and the losing coalition will lose the same amount. The amount depends on the difference between the coalitions' Elo ratings.
Seasons correspond to the year's seasons: Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn. Winter season starts on the 1st of December, Spring on the 1st of March and so on. Season Elo is reset to 1000 in the beginning of each season (Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn). The coalitions are then ranked according to the games they played during the season and the Season Elo rating.
Please be warned that there will be a harsh penalty for trying to exploit the Elo system (creating dummy Coalitions and farming Elo).
4.11 - Contacts menu
4.12 - Duels and Elo
Elo is the competitive rating system. In the beginning, everyone has 1000 Elo points, which then go up or down depending on how well you do in the duels.
Elo gained/lost in a duel depends on the difference between the Elo ratings of the opponents.
Minimum rank to participate in a Duel is 2. Latest duels are shown in player profiles.
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GEOFF DAVIES. Australian politics is a culture of untruths.
The Turnbull Cabinet is upset because some of its secrets are outed through incompetence. The filing cabinet papers so far reveal some hypocrisy and the untruths of Government Ministers past and present.
If you want to see some rather more consequential challenges to government secrecy go and see the movie The Post, which is about how in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg and the Washington Post revealed the history of US interference in Vietnam through the 1950s and 60s. The so-called Pentagon Papers revealed that successive US administrations had systematically lied to Congress and the public about their activities and goals in Vietnam.
For decades the US knew it could not win. It continued mainly to try to save face. In the end it suffered the humiliating defeat it feared. Tens of thousands of US young men, hundreds of Australians and many more Vietnamese died for that vain folly.
The US Supreme Court denied an attempt by the Nixon Administration to stop publication of the papers, voting 6-3. It is doubtful the current well-stacked Supreme Court would show as much concern for the interest of the general public, as against wealthy special interests.
Charges against Ellsberg were dismissed because government prosecutors used illegal methods to gather evidence.
Many lessons were learnt from the Vietnam War. Conscripts have not been used in subsequent invasions. Governments learnt to be much more careful about secrecy. The media were tightly controlled in the invasions of Iraq. Searing pictures of US atrocities did not flood into people’s living rooms. Reassuring lies about freedom and victory have dominated the news.
In the internet era, control of information and monitoring of citizens is far more comprehensive. We know this because Edward Snowden released the official documentation. The US Government engaged, and engages, in massive and illegal surveillance of its citizens.
Snowden has not had the brave legal defence accorded Ellsberg. He is a fugitive in Moscow because of the illegal activities of the US Government.
Australian Julian Assange is also a fugitive, for revealing some of the illegal activities in the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions. Successive Australian Prime Ministers, from Julia Gillard on, have refused to assist Assange to obtain justice, preferring to condemn him and thus implicitly to commit to further illegal government activities against their citizens.
Australia is, of course, a faithful ally of the US Government. It is complicit in all of the lies and illegal activities. Had John Howard not enthusiastically involved us in the Middle East invasions we would not how suffer the level of terrorist threats we do.
But of course the alleged terrorist threats provide the excuse for the militarisation of our bureaucracy and the massive surveillance of Australian citizens. This is necessary because the wealthy establishment would quickly lose control if people knew what is really going on.
The Australian government also has its own dirty ‘secrets’. Asylum seekers are actually legal, and the government’s treatment of them is illegal. Of course this is not secret at all, just neglected by the colluding mainstream media.
Whether it’s coal mining, rampant banks, foreign ‘investment’, pumping rivers dry, suppression of employee rights or whatever, it is clear our governments of both stripes have not been governing in the interests of the people. Rather, they govern in the interests of wealthy sponsors, or in the interests of the wealthy who might attack the government if it misbehaves, as Kevin Rudd found out.
One could call this corruption, or a corporate coup, but apparently it’s not nice to use words like those.
Australian politics is a culture of untruths. Australia’s governments are monstrous fabrications, facades erected to obscure the nefarious activities of those who really wield power.
The current fuss about a few cabinet papers will elicit some some polite ‘debate’ about the public interest versus the supposed right of Cabinet to have free and frank discussions. Bullshit.
Most of the reason for Cabinet secrecy is to avoid embarrassment, or more functionally to facilitate the lying.
The Government is supposed to conduct the public’s business. We have the right to know what it is doing, because it is our business. If a topic is claimed to be commercial-in-confidence then either the government should not be involved or the company should take its chances in dealing openly in the public business. Then there is the routine appeal to ‘national security’, which seems to neuter any slight trace of independence left in our compromised or cowed media.
We have the right to know who is talking to the government. We have the right to know who is funding politicians, directly or indirectly. There should not be any commercial funding of politics, period.
Are those claims too drastic? Government secrecy has given us a succession or wars, a dangerously fragile international situation, a ravaged planet and misery or death for many. The people of the US, in desperation, elected Donald Trump to stop it. He was the wrong choice of course, but the mood of the populace is clear.
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RvsPython #5: Using Monte Carlo To Simulate π
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The number \pi , while being an irrational and transcendental number is a central number to which much of mathematics and science at large relies on for many calculations.
A whole book can be written on this matter alone, but today we are going to focus on approximating the true value of \pi using Monte Carlo simulations in R and Python!
This problem has been covered extensively across the internet and serves as a benchmark example of what Monte Carlo can do. What we are going to do is highlight how this method preforms in both R and Python.
The General Algorithm
The formula for the unit circle is:
The Unit Circle; Graphed with Desmos Graphing Calculator
\iff y = \sqrt{1-x^2}
For (x, y)\in[0,1] , the length of a quarter of the unit circle \pi\over{4} . Thus, to approximate \pi , the function that we will be using is:
Y_i = 4\sqrt{1-X_i^2}
To approximate \pi , we use the following Algorithm:
1. Generate X_1,X_2 \dots, X_n \sim{}U(0,1)
2. Calculate Y_i = 4\sqrt{1-X_i^2}
3. Take the mean of Y_1, \dots , Y_{n} : {\bar{{Y}} =} {{\sum_{i=1}^{n}Y_i}\over{n}} – this is our approximation
The code for this is relatively straight forward. But the question is, which code will run faster?
Let’s go!
The Test
For our challenge we are going to be writing code which is as intuitive as possible in each language. We are going to seek to approximate the value of \pi i using the above algorithm. For R we will be using lapply to implement the Monte Carlo algorithm and for Python we will using for loops.
The Solution with R
#' Define Number of points we want to estimate
#' Generate our random uniform variables
#' Our Transformation function
y<- function(u) {
## Time difference of 0.01399588585 secs
data.frame(n, "MC Estimate"=unlist(avgs), "Difference from True Pi"= abs(unlist(avgs)-pi))
## n MC.Estimate Difference.from.True.Pi
## 1 10 3.281637132 0.1400444782036
## 2 100 3.391190973 0.2495983193740
## 3 1000 3.090265904 0.0513267494211
## 4 10000 3.143465663 0.0018730098616
## 5 100000 3.141027069 0.0005655842822
## 6 1000000 3.141768899 0.0001762457079
The Solution with Python
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import time
# Define Number of points we want to estimate
n = [10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000]
# Generate our random uniform variables
x = [np.random.uniform(size=n) for n in n]
# Our Transformation function
def y(x):
return 4 * np.sqrt(1 - x ** 2)
startTime= time.time()
yvals = []
for array in x:
for i in array:
for array in yvals:
endTime= time.time()-startTime
# How long it took to run our code
print("Time difference of "+ str(endTime) + " secs\n")
# Output
## Time difference of 3.146182060241699 secs
## Estimated Values of Pi
"MC Estimate":avgs,
"Difference from True Pi": [np.abs(avg-np.pi) for avg in avgs]})
## n MC Estimate Difference from True Pi
## 0 10 3.320525 0.178933
## 1 100 3.172290 0.030698
## 2 1000 3.156044 0.014451
## 3 10000 3.141675 0.000083
## 4 100000 3.147255 0.005662
## 5 1000000 3.141400 0.000193
Comparing R with Python
From the following ratio we can see how much faster R is than Python:
## [1] 224.7933496
Woah! Using my machine- R is over 220 times faster than Python!
I think it’s pretty clear to see who the winner is as far as speed is concerned.
Concluding Remarks
While R most of the time sits on the sidelines in the Python-dominant world of Data Science- we need to keep in mind where Python’s weaknesses lie and when to pivot from and use R.
Doing simulation? R, please.
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This took me by surprise!
Nine low-voltage coils in series are connected to a variac.
The sum of the EMF in the coils is ~5.5V
The yellow trace is the 10th unused coil.
The blue trace is the current measured across a 1 ohm resistor.
The purple trace is the output from the transformer.
When the output from the transformer is decreased below the EMF the current shifts and the rotor continues to run.
If You understand what’s going on please explain!
Further details:
The four strands in each of the nine coils are in parallel.
The nine coils are in series.
The sum of the DC resistance in the nine coils is 2.8 ohm.
The sum of the inductance in the nine coils is 36 mH.
The coils have welding-rods as core.
The distance between coils-magnets is ~3mm.
There are 20 neo-magnets, all north.
The tenth coil is only connected to the scope as reference.
The sum of the EMF from the nine coils is 5.5V (3.9V RMS).
There is no Bedini circuit connected to any coil.
The variac secondary is connected to the nine coils.
The variac primary is connected to the grid.
The grid is 50Hz, the wheel spins at 150 RPM.
Since there are magnets and not a squirrel-cage there is no slip.
It is a synchronous motor/generator.
The wobbling is because the coils and the magnets are not that tightly coupled.
The motor has ceramic bearings.
When the variac is above EMF, the variac is running the wheel as a motor.
When the variac is below EMF, the wheel is a generator feeding the variac?
When the voltage from the variac is above the coils EMF there is positive torque.
When the voltage from the variac is below the coils EMF there should be negative torque.
Why does the wheel still run when the variac is at 2.5V RMS which is below the EMF of the coils?
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Good News for Twitter, Chipotle, and iRobot Investors
On this episode of Market Foolery, host Chris Hill is joined by Motley Fool analysts David Kretzmann and Aaron Bush to discuss some of the many companies releasing earnings reports this week.
BetweenChipotle (NYSE: CMG),Twitter(NYSE: TWTR), and iRobot(NASDAQ: IRBT), the trio of companies all gave shareholders reasons to smile.
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Chris Hill: It'sWednesday, April 26th. Welcome to Market Foolery! I'm Chris Hill, joining me in studio today from Rule Breakers and Supernova, David Kretzmann and Aaron Bush. HappyWednesday, gents! David Kretzmann: Hey, Chris! Aaron Bush: Happy Wednesday. Hill: This is one of those days when we have three companies we're going to talk about today. We could easily talk about ten other companies. That'show many companies are reporting today. But,we have to choose,because we're not doing an hour long show. Kretzmann: We could.I don't know if anyone would listen.[laughs] Hill: Two thingswould happen if we did an hour long show. Long-timelisteners, to your point, would just cut out,they would just be like, I'm done. Once they hit the 35 minute mark, they'd pull the plug. The other thing is, Kristine Harjes iscoming in in a little bit to host Industry Focus, andwe don't want to incur the wrath of Kristine Harjes and the Industry Focus crew. Bush: She'll boot us out. Hill: So,let's start with signs of life --I can't believe I'm saying this --signs of life fromTwitter. Shares are up 11% this morningafter a first quarter report that included, Aaron, a rise inmonthly active users. The revenue fell, forthose of you who actually pay attention to money. The revenue fell, but thatseems to matter less than the fact that monthlyactive users are on the rise. Bush: Yeah,I think the 10% pop in the stock today isa little misplaced, in my opinion. I don't really thinkit was that great of a quarter,to be honest with you, Chris. I thinkyou could say it was a mixed bag. Revenue was down,margins and cash flow were up, users were up. Butultimately, I do think, when you piece it all together, the news is more bad than it is good. Hill: Wow, really? Bush: I think so. On one hand,it's clear that Twitter is slowly making changes. They're slow, they'reungodly slow when it comes tohandling user issues like abuse andimproving the actual timeline. But they areimproving their cost, free cash flow is growing,the user base is growing, dailyactive users was up 14% year over year, which isactually pretty great. And I do think that's because ofsome of these efforts they put in placefrom theproduct perspective.
That said, revenue, youcan't just ignore that. That's huge. It's down 8% over the last year, and this is the 11th quarter in a row of adeceleration. The first quarter that it's down. That'spretty bad. I think the moral of the story here ispretty simple. Twitter's ads arecurrently not competitive withFacebookandGoogle,not even close. Andit's a huge undertaking for them to become competitive. So, you cancelebrate all these other wins, butat the end of the day, this isthe business. Turning the ship around is still a multi-year process, and the slower they move, the higher the odds of them getting whacked. Hill: So,the people who are on Twitter itself, butalso reporting in the media, etc, who are saying, among other things thatCEO Jack Dorsey has bought himself some time, this was a good quarter, let's quiet down the drumbeat of, he needs to choose betweenbeing CEO of Twitter and being the CEO ofSquare. You're saying "No". Bush: I think this is beyond him. This isbeyond what any one person can change at this point.I do think a lot of the changes that he has put into place have been positive, but revenue, youcan't overlook that. Kretzmann: Yeah,Aaron mentioned the competition fromGoogle and Facebook. As far as digital sales go,those are definitely the big giants in the room. But then, asTwitter is doubling down on its live videostrategy, they're starting to compete more withSnap, whichhas a very engaged user base. The growth therehas slowed a little bit, it'll be interesting to see what Snap's metrics look like, and how those compare to Twitter, as far as ad engagement and user growth. But, yeah, it'snot a good combination when you have users going up, but ad revenue going down. And Twitter saidthey expect that disconnect to continuefor the rest of the year. Thisprobably won't be the last quarter that revenue goes down. In the meantime, their pace of stock-based compensation hasreceded a little bit, but their diluted share count increased over 1%just from the last quarter. So, in the process, asrevenue has completely decelerated and now is declining, their share count has climbed up. SoI went back and looked, ifTwitter wanted to bring its share count back to the same level it was in 2014,a few months after it went public, they wouldhave to spend $1.9 billion just to getback to that break even level with the share count. What that shows is, the bar thatthey have to cross at some point toreward shareholders isperpetually getting higher as they continue to dilute shareholders. So, that'snot a good trend to have when your revenue is dropping. Hill: Andshare-based compensation,that's one of those things that,if you're the average investor, it'sunderstandable if your eyes gloss over, and it's easy to dismiss it and focus on the more headline-oriented things like revenue andmonthly active users. But when we talk about some of these tech companiespotentially putting themselves up for sale, youneed to recognize that share basedcompensation is a huge factor in that, the fact that they'regoing out and hiring people and convincing them to stay on board and not jump ship, a lot of thathas to do with, "Look, we'regoing to give you more shares." Goback and look atLinkedInbeingacquired byMicrosoft. Asmuch as anything, it was the share-based compensation within LinkedIn that made theleaders of that company go, "Wehave to figure something out quick." Kretzmann: Yeah,because that's one of the main currencies they have for paying theiremployees. And competition between employers inSilicon Valley is not going to disappear. I think that's a dangerous thing for Twittershareholders and something to watch. At first glance,on the balance sheet, it does look pretty strong. We have net cash of $2.2 billion, as Aaronmentioned, you have free cash flow, which is going up, butstock based compensation is still a hugecomponent for that positive cash flow production. So, thebalance sheet, to me, isnot as strong as it looks on the surface, because $1.9 billion just to break even with your share count two years ago, that takes up most of their net cash today. Theinvestments that they've been making up to this point are not paying off. At some point, that trend has to reverse for shareholders to be rewarded. Bush: Oneother thing that David and I were talking about earlier today is how slow they move, and what thatreally means when you look long term. I think it's easy to look at theseincremental changes andthink about where things should go. But the pace that they move, these larger tech companies likeFacebook and Google,they could do it at the snap of a finger, what these guys take six months to do. Hill: I was going to ask you about that. It's,in some ways, anunfair question because unless you're spying onheadquarters at Twitter,there's no way for you to have the information to answer this question,but I'm going to ask it anyway. Why do you think that is?I've seen you write about this, I've seen other people touch on it. Thepopular image that we have of Silicon Valley is, among other things, it's a fast culture, it's a nimble culture. The way things move at Twitter, theymight as well be the U.S.Department of whatever. When youthink of bureaucracy, you think of Washington D.C. When you think of fast and nimble and cutting-edge, you think of Silicon Valley. Twitter'slack of speed is really astonishing. Bush: I do think I know one big reason behind it. I think a lot of it stems fromthe very early days of the company. They never had tostruggle to reachproduct/market fit. So,never in their journey tofigure out how to improve what they're doing, theynever had an issue. They justthrew something out there and it worked. So then,they just kept on capitalizing on what worked, but never really changed the product itself. Now that they're up competing against thesecompanies that have been changing their platform atpretty innovative speeds for years now, they're finding that gap so much larger that it's just, in comparison, it takesso much more time to get out of. Kretzmann: Yeah,it seems like Twitter just doesn't have near the focus on theactual product. What is their platform,fundamentally, compared to Snap or Facebook,where you have leaders that are so product-driven, and it driveseverything they do. From there, you find the business model that fits. But with Twitter, it seems like they're very scatteredtrying to figure out the direction of the company and what their actual product is. Hill: All right, let's move on to Chipotle. First quarterprofits came in higher than expected. Same store sales were up 18%. I realize that is off of,go back a year in time, off a terrible quarter a year ago. Still,it's nice to see that it's up 18%. Stock up a little bit, not amazing, although it has risen about 30% in the last six months. So, I don't know,maybe we shouldn't expect too much of a pop off of this. Kretzmann: Yeah,I think the key for investors is,the metrics are moving in the right direction.I think you can safely say the turnaround has begun. As long as they can keep moving at this pace, I think good things are ahead for shareholders. But, it will still take time. It'llprobably be at least a year and a half, I think, before we get back to those pre-crisis levels, as far as metrics go. But, yeah, same-store sales up about 18%, theirrestaurant level operating margins are trending up. This quarter was almost at 18%,but that's still quite a bit lower than the 28%restaurant level operating margin we sawright before the crisis hit in 2015. All those metrics like restaurant sales, sales as a whole across the company, margins, they'removing in the right direction, it's adefinitive turnaround fromwhere the company has been going for the past year and a half but still some work to do to get back to those pre-crisis levels. Bush: Yeah,when I was reading through the call, andwhat they've been doing to move back to the levels that they were, I think I was pretty impressed with what they were doing. Ifyou look, for example, at theonline sales, that increased 54% over the past year. I know that's something in the past we've talked about.Chipotle is not very good at that compared to others. So,it seems like they're moving in the right direction. Still have room to improve. They're revamping their restaurant tour program, which also was a pain point. Hill: Is this the management program? Bush: Yes,this was their management program. Chipotle has always promoted internally. But, if you grow too fast andpromote too quickly, that can lead to problems,especially if you incentivize poorly. So,they've been doing a lot of work aroundfiguring out what metrics are best toincentivize their managers and field team leaders. It looks like that is improving. Just,how they're interacting with consumers and turnover of their leaders. That's good. They also just closed, this quarter, 15 ShopHouse locations. So, they're moving past that -- Kretzmann: Stillsad about that, though. Bush: Yeah,it's unfortunate for those of us, in the past, who were optimistic at some point. But it's good that they are diverting those resources, now, to higher-impact endeavors. Hill: I'm aChipotle shareholder.I'm glad they decided to pull the plug on ShopHouse,because I got tired of wondering when they were going to roll it out. The first couple of years, what you heard was a lot of, "They'retaking their time, they're not going to rush it." But at some point, you move so slowly thatit's natural to ask the question, "What is wrong with this concept?" Either it's ready to be rolled out or it's not. Thefact that they said, "We're packing it in on that, we're going to focus on the main brand locations and go from there," I'm glad. Kretzmann: Yeah, andon top of everything else Chipotle was dealing with for the past year, I think trying to work out issues at ShopHouse, it was just becoming a distraction. To me, that really was the theme of this quarter, it was very clear that Chipotle is refocusing. And I think part of that is boosted by Steve Ells taking over the sole leadership role as CEO. Monty Moran, who was co-CEO for a while, retired late last year. So I think you're seeing that focus from Steve Ells. And in the call, he mentioned revamping thatrestaurant tour program, as Aaron mentioned. But the focus of that is a "relentless focus on customer experience." So, sort of a Jeff Bezos-esque comment there, really trying to figure out what the priority is there for their management program. And they mentioned that they now have the lowest turnover with general managers in more than eight years. Hill: That's great. Kretzmann: Yeah. A lot of thingsmoving in the right direction. I think you're seeing, internally, a refocus on prioritizing the guest experience. As they get traffic into the stores, their throughput should really be able to increase with digital orders, because they're starting to launch kitchens in the back of the restaurants specifically for digital. That should theoretically take people out of that front line, more people can go through thatfront line. Therestaurant, in other words, will be able topump out more burritos, more orders. If they can get that traffic back to pre-crisis levels andhopefully beyond that, these stores could be much more profitable than they were a few years ago, and they were incredibly profitable then. Hill: Yeah. And that is, in some ways, the promise of this investment, if you're a shareholder or a potential shareholder. Because the headlines have been so bad, and rightly so, for the last couple years. But you go back to 2013 and 2014, and they were putting up these type of same-store sales numbers, not off of a low base, off of a pretty high base. So, when they would come in with double-digit comp increases, that's just breathtaking. So, the idea that they're looking at what Panera has been doing and saying, "How can we do that? How can we up the people walking in and picking up their food and walking out? If we can get our throughput even higher, that's great." Bush: I think the biggest news out of all of this is they're going to start testing two new desserts. Hill: [laughs] Is that the big news? What are the desserts they're testing? Bush: They only announced one of them. It's calledbuuelos. It's these fried tortilla strips with honey, cinnamon, and sugar. So, super healthy. Kretzmann: Fitsright with their healthy ingredients theme. Hill: I hear that honey is supposed to be healthy,I've heard that from time to time. Kretzmann: Cinnamon, I think. Hill: Cinnamon is a spice. Kretzmann: Sugar ... Bush: Justignore that it's fried. Hill: You know,it's dessert, it's not supposed to be healthy if it's dessert.
iRobotshares hitting an all-time high today after first quarterprofit more than doubled expectations. Aaron,this is not a beat by a penny typesituation, they crushed it. They also raised theirguidance for the whole fiscal year. Holy cow. Bush: Roombas are taking over the world. That'sall you can really say. Yeah, they crushedexpectations. I think what we're seeing right now is they'rewitnessing an inflection in demand of their Roombas,which is very impressive.Believe it or not, the Roomba last yearwas the most sold vacuum cleaner in the U.S., in terms of dollars spent. Yeah, wow. To me, thatalmost feels like the rise of the Roomba occurredsomewhat stealthily. Looking atthe product compared to past iterations,you really do see the improvements that have been coming through. They work better, they have more connected features, which will play a role more so as the connected homesinevitably start popping up more and more. The Roomba itself, obviously, is killing it.
But, beyond the Roomba, there are other products and moves the company has made that also excites investors. The Braava, for one, that's iRobot's hardwood cleaner, right now, that'sstill a tiny fragment of revenue, but it's selling well. It also has these wipe consumables that consumers need to buy, so it adds a form of recurring revenue for the company, too, which is always good to see. iRobot just bought back its Asian distributors, which gives it more control in how it sells in that continent. That's actually a pretty huge deal. I think later this year, we should expect Japan's growth to accelerate. We'll see themsignificantly ramp up business in China. That should be a huge deal. The Braava inparticular could sell particularly wellbecause hardwood floors are more of a norm over there. So, reallygiving that second product they have a huge boost. Then, lastly, theinnovation machine that they have just keeps on running. They'rejust as much as software company at this point as avacuum cleaning robot company. So, new robots that perform new tasks, likelawn mowing, whatever else they have in store, should beexpected. As time rolls on, these robots aregoing to do their jobs better and better. I think investors shouldexpect more beats going forward. This is impressive. Hill: I was on their website and saw they also have a robot pool cleaner. I don't have a pool,but I thought, I would 100% buy one. There aresome people who actually enjoy mowing their lawn. I'm not one of them,but there are some people who are like, "It'srelaxing, I'm outside in nature," that kind of thing. I can't imagine anyone owning a pool and saying, "Oh,I'm looking forward to a day of Zen and relaxation of cleaning my pool." No. Buy that thing, set it loose on the bottom of your pool, and you're done. Kretzmann: I think our digital age hasmade people lazy enough that iRobot ishitting the inflection point, finally, wherepeople just want to automate everything they can. Hill: Is 100% of theirbusiness just consumer? Do they have any sort ofbusiness-to-business relationship where they're going to a hotel chain or something like that and selling them en masse? Kretzmann: I think now that they'reentirely a consumer goods, consumer-facing company. Last year theydivested a defense or security division. I think they're primarily selling to the U.S. military at that point. I think that makes sense, because the consumer market is sizable. In the U.S. alone,robot vacuum cleaners are about 20% of the totalvacuum market. Just that robot vacuum cleaner portion, which is growing, is about $6 billion or so. So, there's a sizable market there. And iRobot really is the dominant brand in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. So, I think doubling down and really focusing on thatconsumer market makes sense for them. Since they divested that security division last year, the stock has done really well. I don't follow this closely enoughI know if those two are completely related, or one caused the other. But to me,it makes sense for them to focus on that consumer market,because I think that's where the majority of the growth is. Hill: Aaron, the stock is up about 15% today. We love it when a stock hits an all time high. ButI have to ask, how expensive is this stock? When you look at it, do you think, "OK, this is great for shareholders, but right now, today, this iskind of a pricey stock?" Bush: It is a pretty pricey stock.I think it's definitely earned it. Just seeing, today, the stock go up 15%, I think if this company continues to execute the way it has, and if this inflection point is real, thenI don't think it is as pricey as it may seem to a lot of investors. Kretzmann: Yeah, it's still just a $2 billion company. I could see that bumping up,especially if they could maintain that brand leadership position, which they seem to have carved out pretty nicely. Hill: Beforewe get out of here,I should mention that Rule Breakers,the service started by David Gardner that both David and Aaron work on, the new issue of Rule Breakerscomes out today with two new stock recommendations fromDavid Gardner and the team. You cancheck it out by going to Justscroll down to the bottom of the page,and you can kick the tires onMotley Fool Rule Breakers. Check out the new issue. Thanks for being here, guys.
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Introduction: Angle-Meter
In this instructable, I am gonna share with you people a way to fetch angle from MPU6050 with raspberry pi using python. I am writing this article because I could not find any in internet that guide us to use MPU6050 to find angle with raspberry pi using python. We use kalman-filter a fusion algorithm that was used in Apollo missions (not kidding). Thanks to TJK for explaining such a complex algorithm so that dummies with little and decent knowledge in math (like me) can understand the working of Kalman filter. If you are interested go through his blog TJK's blog explaining kalman-filter
He has implemented his algorithm in C++ . I cannot find the python implementation of this algorithm anywhere in internet. So I thought I would make a python implementation of his algorithm so that python users can use it to find angle with raspberry pi.
Cool. Let's get started.
Step 1: Appratus Required :)
1. Raspberry pi and its dependencies ( Means to display, power source and you know what else is required)
2. MPU6050 (Obviously)
3. Jumpers - (female to female - depends on your MPU6050 module)
Step 2: Let's Get Em' Connected
In case you are not aware, MPU6050 uses a communication protocol called I2C (pronounced I squared C). It is a very powerful one - all it takes is two wires for SDA and SCL and the maximum number of devices that can be used in the same is limited by the hardware limitations (You should atleast be able to connect upto 128 devices). In our case, raspberry pi acts as the master and the MPU6050 acts as the slave.
If you are interested in learning the working of I2C, Here it is.
Alright. Let's get to work.
Let's get em' connected:
Connections are pretty simple.
MPU6050 ---------- Raspberry Pi
VCC ---------- 5V (pins 2 or 4)
GND ----------- GND(pin 6)
SDA ----------- SDA(pin 5)
SCL ----------- SCL(pin 3)
If you don't know the pin configuration of the raspberry pi, you can google it. You can find the pin configuration of raspberry pi 3 here.
You can also take a look at the connection diagram and help yourself.(In the diagram MPU6050's GND is connected to the 34th pin of raspberry pi. That is ground pin too. So don't get confused. you can connect it either way. )
Step 3: Let's Get Em' Working
Download the code:
You can download or copy the code from this git-hub link. I would prefer download over copy because python throws “inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation” sometimes if you copy and paste the code. Find out why here.
Run the program:
Once you have copied the code, open and run it. Make sure you copy both the files and and they are in the same folder (directory). You are all set to go. Tilt the MPU6050 module and the angle in the screen should change.
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Give Me Shelter
Time|November 26 - December 3, 2018
Give Me Shelter
Tens of thousands of people cross the border every year in search of asylum in America. Who among them should get to stay?
Maya Rhodan
It is still dark out when Border Patrol agent Herman Rivera’s radio crackles to life. His fellow agents, posted nearby on levee roads above the Rio Grande, report movement along the border with Mexico in the dim predawn. As the first rays of sunlight creep across the horizon, the team bursts into action, charging down into the scrub, dodging bushes and ducking under low-hanging branches in pursuit of migrants. Helicopter blades whomp overhead. “I’ve got one over here,” an agent yells from a field where stalks of sugarcane tower over his head. “I’ve got two over here,” screams another. They emerge a beat later with a line of men in handcuffs. Elsewhere, agents discover four more migrants, three from China and one from Guatemala, hiding in thick underbrush.
But not all of those who come across the border with Mexico run or hide. Hours later, as the sun reaches its midday peak, Rivera stands overlooking the river, watching as two men climb into an inflatable raft and paddle toward the U.S. shore. He doesn’t call for backup—there will be no need to chase these two. They approach Rivera’s truck, smiling broadly. They are a father and son, both named Fredy, they explain. They’ve been traveling for 13 days from Nicaragua and say they can’t go back. In the simple words of those fleeing their homes in search of security—a language as old as human history itself—they ask for asylum in America.
For Rivera and the U.S. immigration system he serves, the Fredys pose a more complicated challenge than many of the others detained that morning. Those caught crossing the border in search of work, looking to reunite with family members or smuggling contraband face a legal process that is relatively swift and noncontroversial. In most cases, they’re arrested, listed for expedited deportation and sent back to their home country without fanfare. But as asylum seekers, families like Fredy and Fredy qualify for a fair hearing under a decades-old refugee law.
The number of asylum seekers has skyrocketed. In 2008, according to federal data, fewer than 5,000 people apprehended by border agents expressed fear of returning home, thereby triggering the asylum process. Ten years later, that number has soared to more than 97,000—a nearly 2,000% increase. The figure has doubled in the past two years alone, driven by the arrivals of families and unaccompanied minors.
Some immigration-rights advocates explain this uptick by pointing at world events—environmental devastation, gang activity and political volatility in much of Central America. They say that the U.S., a nation founded by religious refugees, is built on a proud tradition of sheltering those facing persecution and that we should make room for as many as we can, whatever the source of their fear.
President Donald Trump and many of his supporters see things differently. They argue that our asylum laws are being exploited, that the migrants who file for refugee status are only pretending to flee oppression as a way to sneak into the country through a legal back door. “[Asylum] is an escape hatch from the laws that Congress has passed regulating immigration,” says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that advocates for lower immigration.
The Trump Administration is waging a policy war against asylum seekers. Its first big move was the family-separation policy that was designed to deter asylum-seeking families. In June, former Attorney General JeffSessions narrowed the U.S. asylum criteria to disqualify victims of gang or domestic violence. In October, the Trump Administration ordered thousands of active-duty troops to Texas, California and Arizona to confront a so-called caravan of Central Americans, including many likely asylum seekers, who are making their way by foot to the border. In November, Trump issued a new rule that will bar all migrants for 90 days from seeking asylum if they do not come through designated ports of entry.
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Perception, memory, reality
At Kontufolk, during Litku Klemetti show I was in the front row. As the crowd moved forward I ended up right next to the stage, literally just a few metres away from the artists. So I had a clear, unobstructed view - and for most of the time I was paying full attention to the band playing. (The only exceptions were the moments when I danced eyes closed.) The following day I saw a close friend, and recalled some memorable moments from yesterday's show. For example, I had a vivid memory of seeing Litku Klemetti playing her balalaika, then switching to keyboards - but that the balalaika strap slipped off her shoulder, so the strap was hanging on her waist leaving the balalaika near her feet. Litku kept on playing the keyboards, and only when the song was finished, she picked up the balalaika, joking that "oh, seems like I just gave birth to this beautiful one!". I described this to my friend.
The day after that I found that someone had already uploaded youtube videos from Kontufolk. If you didn't watch the one I linked in my previous blog, it is here. The event I described takes place near the end, after 4:40 or so. If you watch it, you'll probably see that the song ends there. Litku does not play keyboards while the balalaika is hanging near her feet. But I had - and still have - a clear visual memory which corresponds to the story I originally told. So, apparently, the video footage contradicts my story. I have no reason the believe that the video is forged or altered in any way, so I had to accept that my memory was slightly wrong. No problems admitting that, but it raised some other unsettling questions; If I have this one vivid but false memory, then can I rely on any of my memories? How can I know if all of my memories are delusional? What if I remember correctly but it is just that my perception is unrealistic? What will my friend think about my story - that I deliberately lied, or that I'm a poor soul living in my own delusional dis-reality?
Oh well. I didn't take those doubtful questions so seriously, as life experience and academical studies have already convinced me that this is just the normal of how human mind works. Our mind doesn't merely record raw visual data, but we are all the time processing information, interpreting and making sense of the world we perceive. It might be that to some extent our memory is a vast archive of stored perceptions, which are just dumped there - but if so, then at least the process of recalling memories is highly optimized; we remember the main things which characterized the situation, and we tend to omit a lot of less important details. So no need to feel embarrassed, no need to judge myself as delusional when I notice my mind working just the way a human mind normally works. Then, on the other hand, it seems like an equally normal human trait is to believe that ones perception and vivid memories somehow correspond to the reality like a mirror image does - so that it feels uneasy to admit that what one thought to be reality was not so.
In the case described it is probably just that my mind combined two different episodes, and they merged into one single memory in my mind. We have a video footage where Litku's balalaika ends up hanging near her feet - and I'd guess in some other song Litku switched from balalaika to keyboards, and that time the balalaika strap stayed on her shoulder. So instead of having a vivid memory of non-existent events, it is more like that my memory is a combination of two real events merged into one. If this is a delusion, I'd call it a mostly harmless one. But, of course, things like that could mean a lot if I were an eye-witness to a murder, recalling my memories. So is there anything we can do to check if vivid memories are realistic or not?
We have already suggested videos and photos as 'objective evidence', as the machine just records the visual landscape as it is, not altering it based on its own prejudices. Of course we could go into the boring details of photography, but I'd guess all of you already know a lot of ways how photos and videos can be forged, and how they can be used to make things seem different from what they are in real life. From a philosophical point of view I'd also like to point out that even if a photo was as neutral as possible, unaltered real shot, there still is a process of interpretation taking place when a human mind makes sense of the photo. At times that can lead to rather baffling results, like a few of Norwegian anti-immigration folks mistakenly seeing empty bus seats as women in burqas. I think the key features here are that 1) we tend to see what our mind is pre-tuned to see, and 2) in a social group a shared interpretation reinforces itself; it is easier to believe X to be a true perception when a lot of your peers say that too. This is where it gets dangerous, I think - perfectly natural, the normal way human mind tends to work, but just outright dangerous in the contemporary world.
I'll skip the whole silly anti-immigration 'debate' (for two reasons: 1) to talk seriously about the issue would take a long and detailed text, as the whole thing is rather complicated and comes with a lot of layers which need to be examined carefully, and 2) typically it isn't that easy to talk seriously about the whole topic, as too many people just throw in their knee-jerk reactions and the rational discussion dies even before it got an opportunity to begin. But in case you wonder; I think every human being has the exact same value as a human being, I don't care what skin colour or religion my neighbours have - I think as human beings we anyway face the question of how to deal with each other even when we have our differences. And that I'd rather live in a society which tolerates individual differences, than in a society which forces everyone to be the same.) So let's take a look at a few other topics.
The case of Litku's balalaika is pretty simple; there is one story and one video, and I'd guess we can all agree that the video is more reliable than my memory. So the case can be settled based on single piece of evidence. But unfortunately, not all the real-life events are that simple. Take, for example, the Baltic States joining NATO after the Soviet Union collapsed. Seen from Finland the story is pretty clear; in Soviet times the Baltic states lived under Soviet oppression, they wanted freedom and independence - when the opportunity arose they declared independence (and for a moment there was a looming real threat of Kremlin re-taking Baltics by military force. That was met by a quickly organized resistance ready for lethal means - but luckily things went smooth and the Russian troops withdrew without a fight). So no wonder if they wanted to join NATO - the most powerful defence alliance, as they knew that small states alone couldn't defend themselves against the full force of Russian military. But is this reality, or just a biased anti-russian story? Reading the news and correspondent reports, it seems that the current Russian leadership sees the events as 'NATO expansion'. Now the story isn't about small nations choosing to team-up with bigger allies to better defend themselves - now the story is about an enemy alliance pushing towards Moscow, piece by piece tearing apart the old mighty Kremlin sphere of influence. Not to mention Ukraine - the Kremlin story seems to be that they are justified to defend their territory against hostile enemy interference. Now, if one wanted to, it is probably rather easy to find pieces of evidence to support the story that NATO and CIA have actively been stirring up unrest in ex-Soviet states, secretly affecting the political process, and behind the scenes helping to install Western-minded governments. So it is not just small nations democratically choosing their fate and future direction; it is more like enemy empire expanding its territory. (This seems to be the standard colonialistic world-view; people and their homelands are seen as mere territory to be conquered and governed by The Mighty. It is not a Kremlin invention, as European powers have been pretty good at playing that game, too.)
As things become more complex - and involve a sense of existential threat - it becomes easier to dismiss neutral evidence and biased fake news. So many times I've heard Kremlin-minded people saying that Western media is full of anti-russian hysteria, that Western news are systematically painting Putin as evil, offering only one-sided story and spreading non-confirmed gossip as verified truth. And therefore it is only fair to have news from Russian point of view, to counter the biased one-sided Western news. Uh oh - I'm not quite sure if I can follow the logic there. To me it appears as saying 'since your news is biased, we have a right to believe these other news which are biased the opposite way'. Well, personally I'd prefer to seek some sort of neutral understanding of what is going on - instead of merely choosing this or that group to identify with. Psychologically speaking, I do understand that it is very comfortable to identify with a group, to accept the group's stories as the real news and to dismiss all the contradicting evidence as fake news. That way you never need to face that somewhat embarrassing moment of having to admit that your perceptions and memories were false and that someone else's evidence is more credible. But, if you ask me - that is what emotionally insecure people do. If you have a strong character and good self-esteem, you can take the hit of having to admit that you were wrong, you can adjust to new evidence and to change your mind without too much emotional pain. Or, you can feel a touch of embarrassment and then just let it be knowing that ultimately our self-worth won't be damaged by such a minor thing.
Seems like we have had something similar going on with North Korea as well. Based on history and real evidence, they have a lot of reasons to be afraid that USA is their enemy and would like to see a regime change in North Korea. So the North Korean leadership reasons that to properly defend themselves they need nukes and ICBMs. (Remember, all the other countries think that it is justified to defend their own territory against enemy hostility. So why should North Korea be any different? They perceive themselves under existential threat, so they take all the necessary means to defend their existence. Again, of course, it is mostly a question of The Mighty Ones perceiving certain piece of land as their territory, and then being afraid that they might lose their territory and their political power because of enemy military infiltration.) And, naturally, the military and political leadership of USA feels themselves threatened as North Korea pushes towards acquiring means of mass destruction. Now where is the single video footage which would settle the issue? Where is the neutral evidence which could serve as common ground to find an interpretation all can agree on? I'm afraid there is no such evidence, as the world is already so complex, and the human mind tends to work so that if under existential threat you don't waste time carefully examining all the possible interpretations but rather you prefer to react quickly with decisive force. (And if you are a political leader, the more you can make your people feel like they are under enemy threat, the more the people tend to group together and to support their leader. So if you want to secure your own leadership, one good way is to feed the sense of existential threat. It works so well that eventually a group of people will perceive a picture of empty bus seats as an evidence that their own culture is threatened by an invasion of foreign culture with different kind of clothes. And people, they tend to believe their own perception of reality is the real one.)
Then there are things like global climate change, depletion of natural resources, and the growing social tensions because of growingly uneven distribution of profits gained. All of these factors have a potential of leading to the collapse of the civilization as we know it. No, I don't necessarily mean an apocalyptic scenes of sudden extinction of entire population. But more likely just a major social unrest, shaking and collapsing many of the established functions of the organized society. Or, to be honest, to me it seems rather plausible that ongoing climate change has the full potential of causing mass famine and anything like 75 - 100 % reduction of human population, in the course of coming 40 - 100 years. Yes yes, I know a lot of people don't agree with this view, and they label any such scenario as a text-book example of scaremongering, trying to manipulate people because of some obscure hidden agenda of private profit somewhere. So, again, do we have enough evidence to decide which kind of story is the most credible? Or are we just left with competing stories told from opposite points of view?
Instead of going into the hard scientific evidence of climate change, and instead of further examining the psychological side of wanting to believe the story of your own in-group, I'd like to offer a yet another fictional story. Imagine an UFO armada hovering over the skies of Earth. First they'd blast some alien explosives on developing countries, landing to raid resources there. Next they'd start to bomb coastal cities, again landing to grab what ever loot they could raid. Now, how would the general public react? Some would say that the whole event isn't real and that it is only just fabricated media story to control people with scaremongering. (Sure, you can always play this trick. On that note, I tend to think that USA doesn't exists, but is merely a false media story fabricated by those companies who gained private profit by shipping people to the so-called New Continent. Never believe such stupid lies! Those companies made people to sell all they got in Europe, boarding ships like Titanic, and the companies saw the people drown in the ocean. Selling one-way tickets to certain death - such a good business model! To keep up the appearances you needed to fabricate fake news about people gaining riches in America. Spam those stories everywhere and people will believe it. Hah! But it is me and few other clear-minded people who can see through this conspiracy. USA does not exist, it never did! Always, if you are massively told a story in state-run schools and mainstream media, never believe it and remember to ask: who gains the profit? Yes, it is the transportation companies gaining huge profits by fooling people to buy tickets to USA. You can fool a lot of idiots, but you can't fool me for I can think in a critical and rational manner, through and through!. Hey, now wait what? Oops, sorry, it was my intention to tell just one fictional story, but then I sidetracked to this another silly story. I leave it up to you to figure out if it is serious or satirical).
So where were we? Yes, we had an UFO armada raiding Earth. Okay, some people would think that it doesn't matter as long as they are destroying remote countries and other nations. Sure they won't come here, as we haven't done anything against them? Nothing bad ever happens here, right? And then some people, maybe, probably maybe, would feel that The Earth is under attack, and to defend ourselves against an external threat we have to put aside our differences, to join our forces and to fight back - China, Russia, Europe, USA all united in a joint effort to save the planet for us and for our children. I'd guess evolution prepared us for that - when threatened by external hostility, most of the people tend to group together to better defend themselves. Maybe an UFO invasion could trigger such a reaction on global scale - at least for a moment? Once the UFO armada would retreat because of heavy unified resistance, then we could again relax and go back to our usual 'my group is better than your group, now if you come any closer to our territory we will punch you in the face!'-mentality. It all depends on how do we perceive the reality.
So, then, why isn't the global climate change perceived like an UFO invasion? A global threat which poses an existential threat to mankind, and which requires unified co-operation to avoid the worst-case scenarios? Is it because so many of us prefer to stick with our earlier perceptions and memories? That we tend to find our comfort in aligning with the interpretations and stories of the fellow members of our own tribe? Is it because it is psychologically easier to dismiss conflicting evidence as fake news, so that one doesn't need to admit that one's perceptions and memories might have been just a little bit delusional? Given the evidence, do we prefer to stick with our pre-existing opinions, or are we open to re-evaluate our interpretations? Even when it would potentially mean shaking up some of such stuff we felt that we had a clear, vivid, self-evident perception and memory?
I recently read a paper about the possibility of avoiding the collapse of Western civilization. It concludes: "But that requires resisting the very natural urge, when confronted with such overwhelming pressures, to become less cooperative, less generous and less open to reason." In a way, I do agree. On the other hand, I'm still a bit unsure if it really is the very natural urge to become less cooperative and less open to reason when faced with enormous pressure or immediate existential threat. As, I'd like to point out that since prehistory it has been cooperation and rationality which have enabled us to survive and to prosper. A lone hunter in the jungle is a lot more likely to perish, but an organized group of humans has greater chances of continued survival. And the human species has been rather good at using the rationality to solve problems. It remains to be seen if we continue to do so, or if we, on a large scale, prefer to stubbornly stick to our old habits even when those habits are likely to get us all killed.
Litku Klemetti playing balalaika. A picture I took while dancing. No filter, no photoshop.
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Erkka, I don't know where to begin, and I could write a reply three times as long as your post to do what I'm about to say any justice, but I'll try to be concise. Don't be so quick to dismiss your vivid memories. One day last June of 2016 I woke up and started noticing that things were different. I'm 44 years old tomorrow, and I'm saying that things I've known for 43, well, 42 years were suddenly different. The world map is different. The moon is different. The sun is different (was off-yellow and now bleach white). Music lyrics have changed. Company logos have changed. Celebrity names have changed. Human anatomy has changed. The pyramids of Giza have changed (and I've studied Egypt since I was a kid). The Bible has changed. There are literally thousands of things that have for me, changed. I'm not the only one, there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of people online pointing out the same things I've noticed and we all have the same memories/experience of a different reality that supposedly never existed. Can we all have the same and very specific false vivid memories? Confabulation? To me, they are not mere memories or beliefs but fact. I know my name and my family's names. (they haven't changed, but it's on the level of our names changing). There are certain things you just know to be fact because they were your reality not for an hour or a few moments, but DECADES. Every day of 42 years I lived under a yellow sun, every day, all day. Now it's bleach white. I know this may sound very crazy, but I know that reality has been modified. Look up the "Mandela Effect" if you have not already seen anything about it. It has deeply affected me.
The Inca said that they believed that they were living in the time of the "Fifth Sun" and that the time of the 6th was coming later. It seems that this has been going on in cycles since the beginning of civilization. The Inca did not have the internet to compare notes with others across the world. They would likely only have noticed any shifts in reality and consciousness in limited ways, IE: the sun's color/size/motion. The Maya had similar lore and the whole 2011 end of their calendar was really a shift to a new age or epoch. I'm not saying they had all the answers, I'm saying they at least were aware of a cyclical reality shifts and charted them out the best they could and built religious lore around the idea in an attempt to explain it.
This is pretty heavy stuff, and can be frightening if you experience it. It can lead one to question certain things. But know this, we did not die as some suggest, reality is not a fake simulation as some are suggesting, etc. I think this is the same Earth, the same universe, just modified in-place. I think you may have had your first little experience/awareness with this Erkka, with your memory of Litku.
Well, I certainly do agree with the notion that any serious discussion is likely to take long, in-depth posts, and a lot of exchange in form of questions, answers, new questions and new answers to communicate ideas between different persons.
What comes to the phenomenon of the reality being modified in-place, let me just say that from my point of view, I have no reason to think that my memory of Litku playing keyboards was anything like my first little experience / awareness of reality shifting. That is because I've been familiar with the phenomenon for more than 25 years, and been studying it and related questions for quite a while. So that I'm not sure what and how to discuss the theme. Some of my personal thoughts have been scattered here and there in many of the older blog posts. But the more I think about it, the more I feel that I probably have nothing to say on the subject =) People will discover things for themselves, and travel the path of thoughts in their own minds, and that is what matters.
Anyhow, if / or / as there is a great epoch shift taking place, I personally have nothing against it happening =)
Forgive, I didn't intend to imply that you've had no experience with the subject although that's how I seem to have come across. I suppose I became over zealous in trying to deliver a point. I agree with your closing, neither do I, generally speaking. To me in my beliefs, it heralds the final "age" which will be a "golden age" if you will, the likes of which never seen before. A millennial reign of absolute purity and truth. But it will be preceded by tremendous cataclysm as never before witnessed in any age, as this one wraps up.
Absolutely no problem - I think it is just a natural flow of conversation that sometimes we need to clarify and re-clarify what we have already said. I mean, I always try to remember that people might not mean exactly what I read them writing; sometimes it is just a case of unclear wording or a sentence hastily put together which appears in a different tone than intended.
Also, the way you tell that "Mandela Effect" (or getting to read and to know more about it?) has deeply affected you, for a past year or so - I think when one is deeply affected and thrilled by big new things, it just easily happens that the thoughts and words spill out and we want to share this wonderful sense of "Oh WOW did you know that ..."
Hehe, so this is what I assumed of the context you are writing from. I hope you didn't find my reply harsh in any way, nor too discouraging. The whole theme of 'shifting reality' is so big a thing and I've spent years examining the related philosophical, psychological and personal questions, that I feel it is not easy for me to reply without going into boring lengths and details of reflection... Oh well, but this is often the problem I feel with any kind of philosophical stuff, so let's see how it goes =)
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…‘Black on white ‘Fragment evolution’ cycle was created to the 2nd Kaunas International Printmaking Biennial ‘Fragment evolution’.
…‘The main concept of the Biennial becomes visual dynamics in graphic art. The form of expression, prevailing in the works, is supposed to be namely that which is found in the comics. The elements of this popular genre are used to supplement the stories, rendered in different techniques of graphic art, with the text. In this way, the comics obtain a new quality, becoming an evolution of one image and an original life story, rather than remaining a sequence of pictures squeezed into frames.
Printmaker divides her thoughts visually into proper and improper fractions. The circles (gramophone records, the face of a clock?) are divided piece by piece until there is only a single part left: the cycle of works from I to VIII of her ‘Fragment evolution’. If the fraction is an expression of a number representing one or a few parts of the whole, these unfinished circles may tell how much time of the day is left personally for you and me, or how many melodies there are still for the gramophone to play…‘
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I know your doing a ultimate lion simulator gluten free games, but in the future I have an idea for the future ultimate cheetah simulator! like wolf (haven't played it yet) the multiple dens one can be behind a beautiful water fall and other can be on top of a tree! (I know cheetahs can't climb trees) like that tall rock in hyena sim but up in a tree! And female cheetahs don't live in a pack so it can just be a mother and cubs you can teach your cubs how to hunt and choke your pray to death! Some male cheetahs live in packs called: Coalition so you can create a cheetah gang! Sometimes it's just a pack of brothers! And your cheetah cubs stay with you until their all grown up! Like at level 15! And there can be a little zoo in the middle of the map! And there can be poachers that can take your cheetahs away! And instead of waking up back at your house you wake up in that little zoo! You have to find a way to escape or rescue your coalition or cubs and if your a teenager cheetah then you can rescue your mother! And make the energy a little more realistic like if you run out of your energy then you pass out and wake at your den as a different cheetah (if you have one) but if you don't have an other cheetah then you have to wait 5 min. If your not paying attention to your energy then when it's getting too low then your energy starts to flash red and make a beeping noise! I hope you do a ultimate cheetah simulator with some of my ideas!
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Mist, a muscular, whitish with icy blue eyes, female cheetah, was racing across the plain. She felt the snapping jaws just at her hindquarters. She was panting but she pushed harder knowing she was faster. She broke threw the surface of a fast stream. She heard the hard paws growing fainter. She leaped on top of a huge boulder.
" I beat you Crimson! " she laughed with humor. Crimson was getting out of the stream, his reddish brown pelt soaking with water. He grinned and hit the water at her direction. " I'm faster than water. " Mist grinned as she leapt towards him.
Mist had given birth to three cubs but only had two because the runt had died of a unknown sickness. The biggest, a orange one with yellow eyes, was Fire. The other one was a male as well. He looked just liked Fire but had green eyes, like Crimson. Mist curled beside Crimson as she nursed her cubs. Together, her and Crimson raised their surviving cubs.
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This is a really excellent game. I think the graphics are just perfect, and it's very exciting. However, there are just a few things I have a problem with.
ENERGY-- In real life, cheetahs have to rest by their prey after a hard chase. In this game, it takes about two seconds to completely regenerate your energy. I'm not saying that your cheetah has to sleep for an hour or two, but it should at least take a bit longer to regenerate energy.
OPENING THE APP-- Whenever I leave the app, I have good, nearly full stats. Then when I come back, my hunger and thirst are way worse. I have to make up for all of that hunting!! If this is a problem you can fix, then I would like to see this in a later update.
FOOD-- There are many times when there is so much food I can barely catch all of it. Other times there is literally nothing roaming around, no matter how much I search. That is realistic, but I think you should be able to preserved unneeded food for that horrible time when the savannah is completely empty.
LEVELS-- It feels to me like after level 20, when you get the final cheetah cub, that there is no purpose left. I think you should add more later prizes than death bite, mate, new colors, and first and second cubs.
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Everyone and their mothers is implicated in the Hergueta murder
In a move that has surpassed even the most permissive standards of batshit lunacy, the Venezuelan government has published its definitive list of suspects linked to Patriota Cooperante José Pérez Venta’s murder and hacking-up of Liana Hergueta.
Along with your everyday presidential assassins (María Corina Machado), arsonist coup mongers (Leopoldo López) and paramilitary fascists (Álvaro Uribe), newcomer scapegoats include Democrat U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, and El Nacional owner Miguel Henrique Otero. 80’s soap opera star María Conchita Alonso is also thrown in for good measure.
As with every political scandal that Chavismo fabricates, “the sloppier the better” seems to be the operative phrase. It’s like SEBIN entrusts its 17-year-old intern to come up with this stuff between rounds of playing Angry Birds.
Look, I am deeply uncomfortable with the trivialization of the murder of a Venezuelan woman. But the government is plainly bent on making this unfathomable tragedy into a political affair. And commenting on political affairs it my job. It is beyond shameful that a person’s memory be defiled for the sake of partisan spectacle. I can’t not comment on the political implications of the way Liana’s case has been handled. But we can’t lose sight of the fact that a life has been lost, and loved ones are in pain.
None of these compunctions seem to affect the government. Gone are the days when even mínimal effort was put into faking evidence, like the bogus emails that supposedly proved an opposition-led assassination plot conspiracy last year. (Weird how we never heard about that colossal threat to democracy ever again, isn’t it?)
This time around, connections between alleged suspects are as arbitrary as they are unsubstantiated: just throw a bunch of shit at the wall and see what sticks.
And while slander and incrimination might be a fun way for Chavista propagandists to pass the time in their evil lairs, you have to wonder what the practical, measurable, added value to their agenda is, given the government’s increasingly scarce resources.
Will this translate into votes?
I can’t see how.
One thing’s for sure: what chavismo-sponsored defamation lacks in sophistication, it definitely makes up for in distribution channels. The infographic you see above belongs to Ciudad CCS, an unapologetically propagandist daily financed by the Libertador Municipal Government. It circulates, free of charge, in government-friendly communities. (I tried and failed to find one in15 kiosks throughout Eastern Caracas.)
The person who gave me this clipping, a middle-class opposition voter, was handed the paper while riding public transportation. When he read it, his immediate, incredulous and vocal reaction was “¡¡Qué Bolas!!…all that’s missing here is Kermit the Frog.”
His fellow passenger replied, with visceral conviction, “I hope all these assholes land in jail.”
That this particular passenger’s voting intent could be swayed by such an asinine disinformation campaign, despite his more pressing economic woes, is bad enough, but not surprising. After all, he’s long been bombarded with a relentless hegemonic campaign of brainwashing. But does this one piece of propaganda make a difference on the margin? I just don’t think it will make much difference come election day.
What most disturbs me is how chavismo’s strangle-hold on public opinion has basically obliterated this passenger’s capacity and willingness to judge facts for himself, regardless of political allegiance. How it has destroyed his interest in determining how he will ultimately consume reality.
This legacy of profound disrespect towards the individual is something opposition candidates must understand, if their promises of Change are to actually transcend the immediacy of elections.
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1. “But does this one piece of propaganda make a difference on the margin? I just don’t think it will make much difference come election day.”
It’s the government’s daily reminder to its voters: “Thinking about voting for them because you’re mad at us? Remember they’re evil!” It’s not the first and it certainly won’t be their last. Chavismo hasn’t ever been on the defensive, they always use a powerful offense. That’s why, even while the PSUV is down by 20 points in the polls, the MUD’s ground there is still shaky.
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• I am very disappointed at this article and its analysis. I Imagine having to read pro-government stories does affect one’s on analysis and even writing. I think one should never underestimate this Government, EVER!!! An error that we do over and over again! This ‘fabricated story by the Government, will not directly swing votes but it has the power to create more chaos and re-iterate the message “We the government are indestructible, as we can slander, and threaten (with imprisonment) anybody!” So what can you do voter??? nothing! So are you sure voter (Mr. Rodriguesz/Gonzalez/Miss fernandez) that voting will make a difference?. If we accuse and imprison Leopoldo and Ledezma, imagine what we can do with a ‘layman’ like you Mr. Rodriguez/Mrs Gonzalez/Mrs Fernandez?”!. The effect of this article, hence is to increase abstention and also to radicalise the more radical Chavista, those ready to ‘fight’..who would even believe in Aliens being involved in the conspiracy. To believe that this Government strategy is swinging votes is totally underestimating this Government’s capacity to play out of the democracy game.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Their minds belong to the government, can’t think for themselves. They depend on the government for everything. That is the reason for getting rid of private enterprise.
• Well said, Paola. And that’s why it’s best to follow democratic norms, however twisted they may be in the back rooms. Meaning, one must make an effort to vote, no matter how many nincompoops — even those who pose as oppositionists — throw a ‘pataleta’ and try to convince others that voting is useless.
2. There are higher res versions of the conspiracy network diagram circulating the internets see for instance http://ciudadmaturin.info.ve/parapolitica-de-la-oposicion/
How can one comment on this stuff, I mean there are I believe typically 6 degrees of separation between all of us right? I think that means that Christian Slater is also involved….
3. I never really trusted that Marco Rubio guy…but, seriously, an Oppo rides the Ven. subway only at his peril–he might come into contact with the (ugh!) Pueblo, that is if one of them doesn’t rob/plug him for his celular first.
• Es que se ahogó con sus propios dientes luego de estrellarse con la verdad irrefutable, de que los sapos descuartizadores son rojos rojitos chaburros chaburritos.
El hecho de que no pueda convencer a nadie de que el sapo no es chaburro tal vez lo llevó a esto:
Así que tiene que conseguirse un teclado nuevo, otra vez.
• Te mando otro tomate, Ralph!
“Milité en el partido Primero Justicia a partir del año 2012 cuando fueron las primarias donde Henrique Capriles Radonski participó de cara a unas elecciones presidenciales contra el presidente Hugo Chávez. A partir de ahí formé parte de un movimiento llamado Jóvenes Trabajando Aquí (JOTA). En cuanto a que Henrique Capriles no me reconoce como militante de PJ tengo unas fotos con él al igual que con Tomás Guanipa, somos muy buenos amigos, de hecho uno de los hermanos de Guanipa estudió con mi hermano en la universidad del Zulia”, fueron las palabras de Carlos Trejo.
• Seguimos esperando las pruebas de que los sapo descuartizadores de narcodado no son chaburros.
Cierto, es que no existen, sólo sabes balbucear paja sin sentido como si con eso fueras a tumbar evidencia dura e irrefutable como la que mostré y que es de conocimiento mundial.
Pilas, que el asesinato no prescribe, y esos batracios pagarán con 30 años completicos como se lo merecen, en una celda al lado de la de su jefe, el narco mayor de Venezuela.
4. Lets bear in mind that any news that even for a minute distracts public attention away from the daily disaster of their lives ( clearly blameable on the govts corruption and mismanagement) benefits the regime , people however are not so easily distracted anymore because whats happening in every ones life is so traumatic that it holds their rapt and constant attention , thus the regimes each time more frenzied efforts at creating distracting news so outlandish and nutty that people let go of their main day to day concern with battling shortages , rampant inlfation etc.
If you go to any public place nowadays , any where , any time , where people meet there is one mandatory topic of irate or cinical discussion ,the crisis in their lives and the govts role in causing it . If you want to talk about an hegemonic all absorving theme , thats it !!
This explains the lunacy of the regimes latest attempts at creating news that go far beyond the limits of the believable and which following Goebbles well known advise blame the regimes enemies for all the wicked things that happen in the world .
The deeper the crisis bites into everyone life the grossest the inventions the regime will make to distract people from their daily predicaments .
5. Obviously, all these individuals who believe in what the regime has to say have serious problems with the use of basic logic… it seems to me millions of Venezuelans suffer from that because of their very faulty upbringing and almost zero education.
The actual murderers got themselves pictures with Guanipa and Ledezma and others. I am sure there are other infiltrated who did the same…the regime planned of not the murder of this poor woman the general scheme.
I believe the opposition should for once not just say it is all slander. It should prepare a proper case of all the accusations made by the regime and then organise press conferences aimed at the outside world. It should demand the regime’s actions be discussed abroad and, on the side, demand again international observers.
1/ Castro-Chavistas know that they only need the support of a certain section of the populace, their ignorant Target Audience suffices for their ignoble purposes of staying in power. 30% reticent support is enough for them, considering all the tools at their disposal: the media, electoral frauds, massive fear & terror tactics, repression, bribes, promises..
(5 Million direct Chavista enchufados plus other indirect leeches and thieves = 25% support even for Masburrismo already. Plus a little bit of the 60% ignorant Chavista population that they can can bribe, threaten or intimidate. Plus the Gerrumandering, Trampas, Fraudes,, done deal in the fake “parlamento” until the next Fraud in the next Presidential “elections”. )
2/ Massive lack of Real Education explains it all here, as usual. Pueblo-People actually believe this surreal crap, or “batshit lunacy” as you well say, only because they are completely incapable of thinking for themselves, no analytical skills, no basic, elementary information about world history, basic politics or economics, no individual reasoning ability whatsoever. You learn that in school, and I don’t mean just Chavista alphabrutization school.
That’s why they distribute those free flyers and cheap papers in certain areas only. They couldn’t care less about the rest and have limited resources now. Conocen su ganado: Ignorant target audience suffices: Petare Guatire, Cota 905 or Barlovento, not Caurimare.
They know only that only such incredibly under-educated pueblo-people can swallow such massive media Turds. That’s all they really need besides bribes, corruption, force and repression.
That’s what many of us in the “East” side of the bus sometimes fail to comprehend: We have a hard time wrapping our educated, analytical and exiled brains around such impossible, massive ignorance, so we might still feel puzzled or perplexed by such daily, yet widely accepted barbarities.
Will this translate into votes?
I can’t see how.”
The point is, not to lose their voting base, appealing to the hatred seeded by the mortadela podrida and the commies since the 60s, AND keep the ninís thinking that “the oppos are a shit, so they prefer the ‘known evil’ over the ‘one to be known'”
But mostly to keep the idiots at their own base from going backstabbey.
8. This people, meaning “el soberano” really hate middle/upper class. That’s pretty obvious with this remark on the bus
• Any choro after the first couple of strikes jumps straight to upper class strata, just by having a couple of hundreds of millions in his “account”.
The whole “people hate middle/upper class” shit is just a hate-speech to find some scapegoat.
9. Im not sure that even most hard core chavistas pay that much attention to this kind of govt misinformation , even if they tend after years of indoctrination to believe it , there are now more pressing things occupying their minds , like finding the stapples they need to feed themselves and attend to their living needs, like finding the money to make ends meet , finding the stuff you need is a constant battle that consume so much of their energies and atttention that there is little left to spend on worrying about those so often repeated govt tales of obscure conspiracies and plots .
• Ralph, never heard of Rosie Palms or her ‘message’ but I guess you may be right that for the Chavista mind the propaganda induced hatred of enemies might bring on a mental pleasure similar to that which some find in the practice of masturbation . hatred (righteous outrage) can indeed serve as a kind of morbid stimulant to the grossest most obscene passions !! , Even then, constant anxiety and fatigue caused by the constant struggle to find (and pay for) the basic stapples of life can dampen in many the inclination for indulging in morbid pleasures .
• That’s why I linked the article to TVTropes, Bill, it’s kinda short, and once you read it, you’ll get the joke :P
10. The next logical step is to put out an “album de barajitas” that will paint the entire conspiracy out.
There’s still more people to rope in to this.
11. I think all the American politicians named should file a slander law suit, just like Diosdado Cabello did against all the newspapers that reported (truthfully) the U.S. accusations against him for involvement in drug trafficking.
12. I’d like to see a couple of different polls:
– “Would you still vote for Chavez or another Chavista candidate like he was?”
– “Who do you think is to blame for the Economy, escasez, inflacion, colas?
1/ Chavismo system
2/ Maduro Government
3/ Ultra-derecha, Miami-Bogota-Madrid axis of Evil
4/ Do you believe in Economic or Political wars from other countries against Venezuela?
You know what the pathetic, astonishingly ignorant results would be.
Probably over 60% for Chavismo and blaming Colombia, USA or Ultra-derecha for everything.
That’s how bright and well educated the Venezuelan populace is. The reason for all this shit.
13. Accordidng to polls taken in May of 2015 , 16% say there are no significant food shortages, of the rest who do think there are shortages (84%) , there are only 2.4% blaming the oppo/the US govt private business interests for the shortages.
Right now Chavistas are reduced to about 25% of the population , from the above it appears that 16% of people are fanatized enought that they are in denial that there are any significant shortages , and of the rest 2.4% blame the Unholly Alliance of Regime enemies , meaning that there are quite a few hard core chavistas who believe the govt is to blame for the shortages .
The subject of inflation is not dealt with in the post .
Wonder what a poll taken now ( when things have worsened considerably) would reveal.
14. Commenters keep mentioning the “..uneducated people of Vzla…” or “…almost zero education” of the population but, isn’t one of the greatest quoted achievements of the Chavez government to have nearly eliminated analfabetism? Is this true? Analfabetism at what level?
Assuming that this claim is true, “learning to read” is certainly one of the most important steps in bringing about education. However, analfabetism is not a single, unique measure. Instead, there are a number of categories to judge the degree of analfabetism, the reading skills required to read food labels (for example) or the reading skills required to read a simple, short story. Perhaps the validity and relevance of the claim to have eliminated analfabetism should be questioned?
• there are two kinds of iliteracy , one which prevents you from reading a text , and another which prevents you from reasoning and thinking at an analytical and critical level . The latter we might call intellectual literacy , and it has nothing to do with natural intelligenve but with peoples ability to use it to understand and judge complex issues with any degree of competence. There are people who are literate in the first sense but iliterates in the second sense . There are also people who are notional intelectual literates but who are functionally intellectual illiterates becaue even if they have recieved some formal education they never learned to think for themselves in any analytical and critical way.
• Good afternoon, last time I checked Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was a Republican. Also, the way the writer described María Conchita-Alonso is quite disappointing. The actress made it in Hollywood many years ago and is to many more than a mere ’80’s soap star’. In the bigger scheme of things, these two facts may not be important to the overall argument of the piece, yet when the writer begins his article with inaccurate information, it deters me from reading the rest. Just a thought.
While Chavismo and its PSF supporters have made the claim, the claim is bogus. Years ago, when Chavismo was claiming that UNESCO had commended Venezuela for eliminating illiteracy, Alek Boyd contacted UNESCO to find out if it had made such a statement. UNESCO informed Alek that it had not made such a statement. [VCrisis archives] From the abstract of Francisco Rodríguez’s 2006 study: Freed From Illiteracy? [2006] :
We evaluate the success of the Venezuelan government’s latest nation-wide literacy program, Misión Robinson, using official Venezuelan government survey data. Controlling for existing trends in literacy rates by age groups over the period 1975 to 2005, we find at most a small positive effect of Robinson on literacy rates, and in many specifications the program impact is statistically indistinguishable from zero. This main result is robust to time series analysis by birth cohort, and to state-level difference-in-differences estimation. The results appear to be inconsistent with recent official claims of the complete eradication of illiteracy in Venezuela, but resonate with existing research on other adult literacy programs, which have usually been expensive failures
Enrollment in higher education institutions has increased, as has Chavista indoctrination in same. According to the 2011 census, 4.92% of the population 10 years and older is illiterate.
• Even if the alphabetization campaign had been a total success and had rid Venezuela from illiteracy , being able to read by itself means nothing if the people thus aphabetized use their recently acquired skill not at all or only to read garbage and little if at all to read things capable of improving their minds, their critical thinking skills . Its well known that most people in Venezuela are averse to reading anything beyond the sports news and the yellow pages and maybe the 5 y 6 forecast of favourite horses . For news and other heavier fare they rely either on the radio or TV or just plain conversation with kin, friends or neighbors. Thats why the regime has been so slow in attacking the independent papers because for them the priority was filling the airwaves with their own radio and tv stations and silencing those that might be critical of their performance. !!
15. Emiliana – you need to read the news and not be so selective. All the military officers involved in the plot to bomb Caracas are in jail. Look it up if you can be bothered. Ledezma is still in jail. Borges is in the process of having his parloamentary immunity taken away. Sttrange that these things happened and you willfully and lyingly ignore them and write that we have Heard nothing more about this plot.
Regarding throwing shit at the Wall and making it stick. If you do not want to believe the videos testimonies of Perez Venta and Trejo that is you problema – and it is more than that since it is a clear sign that you support parmilitary crimes against Venezuelans by denying the connections between the opposition you support and their terrorist financiers.
You are the one who shopuld be ashamed.
16. “This legacy of profound disrespect towards the individual is something opposition candidates must understand”…………………………that’s rich cpming from you, you bare-faced hypocrite.
Remember the profound disrespect you showed to Chavez’ family when he was mortally ill? But thatps OK I suppose.
• A question for you, Mr. Rosales:
When one talks of profound disrespect, how did you feel regarding what you, as a member of chavismo, were told repeatedly during the last year of President Chavez’s life regarding his illness. Specifically, how you were told repeatedly that he was getting better and how he was not dying? Through all those cadenas wherein he and his people repeatedly said he would be fine?
Did you feel lied to? Did you feel profound disrespect on the part of your leadership that you could not be trusted to handle the truth?
• Don’t waste my time with this bullshit. You know I am right about the doublé standards exercised by Emiliana.
• So you refuse to answer an honest question?
This has nothing to do with any double standard. I am curious about how you feel about the leadership lying to its base.
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The Maya Train could put biosphere reserves at risk
Mama jaguar and her cub.
By: Angélica Enciso L. and Fernando Camacho
Calakmul, in Campeche, because of its continuous extension of vegetation, is the second most important rainforest reserve of tropical America, after the Amazon. The Sian Ka’an area, in Quintana Roo, shelters a system of underground rivers that interconnect cenotes and petenes. [1] We’re dealing with two biosphere reserves of high importance in the country. The Maya Train will pass through them with the threat that they will lose their ecological connectivity and fragment.
The above is pointed out in the study “The Maya Train, why are the biologists so concerned?” Casandra Reyes, Celene Espadas and other experts from the Scientific Research Center of Yucatán and the Social Sciences Unit of the Autonomous University of Yucatán authored the study.
The report exposes the importance of the jungle: it is equivalent to the planet’s lungs; it regulates the temperature and provides water. Its fauna contribute to the natural control of pests, besides services like pollination, which allows plants to produce fruits. “This kind of pollination is required by the vast majority of the vegetables that we eat, therefore the mass death of bees or bats could threaten food production.”
It adds that large mammals that inhabit the region, such as the jaguar and the puma, control populations of herbivores and help the regeneration of plants in the forests. There are other tangible environmental services, like wood, firewood, fruits, medicinal plants, dyes, spices and animals for hunting, among others. Cultural services are added to all that; local communities with “their practices and thoughts seek to establish a harmonious relationship, the least predatory possible, with nature.”
It points out that the archaeological zone of the reserve is still difficult to access; there is little tourist infrastructure and less than 40,000 visitors come per year. The report projects that with the train’s arrival, of the almost 17 million visitors that would arrive in Cancun per year, 3 million would go to Calakmul, which would multiply the current numbers.
Regarding the social impact, Giovanna Gasparello, a researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, warns that this project would generate massive tourism, with the supposed objective of creating “development.” It brings with it illegal economic activities, such as human trafficking, money laundering and drug trafficking.
She points out in an interview that, according to official data, in 2017 in Playa del Carmen there was an index of 89 intentional homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, when the national average is at 25 for every 100,000. In Bacalar, with only 90,000 inhabitants, the index is 38.1. She alerts that instead of being a tool of inclusion and social wellbeing, mass “sun and beach” tourism is based on a series of land dispossessions, in which large investors are involved.
She proposes that this project promotes territorial reordering on the Yucatan Peninsula. Its purpose is to concentrate the campesinos that live in disperse communities in 15 urban centers to be built or already existing, to have their labor available for the tourist industry. That is serious not only because of the uprooting, but also because that population would depend on an activity that can go down due to factors like the [toxic] sargassum seaweed or an increase in violence.
As if that were not enough, the geographic characteristics of the Peninsula mean that water is very scarce, she warns.
[1] Cenotes are sinkholes that expose the water underneath limestone. Petenes are islets in a salt marsh with important vegetation.
Originally Published in Spanish by La Jornada
Monday, July 15, 2019
Re-Published with English interpretation by the Chiapas Support Committee
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How Your Dog Says “I Love You”
Dogs are known for being loving, charismatic, fun, and being your best friend. But do our dogs love us back? The short answer: Yes. Dogs express their emotions in a variety of ways–ranging from super subtle to totally obvious–so, sometimes, it can be tough to tell what’s a positive expression or a negative expression.
Here are the different ways they express there love:
1. They Lean Against You
If your dog leans on you, it’s because they feel safe and secure with you. Sometimes dogs will lean against their humans when they’re feeling scared or anxious, but that only means he sees you as his protector.
2. They Look Into Your Eyes
If your dog feels loved, safe, and happy he will look into your eyes. Maintaining eye contact isn’t just a useful tool while you’re training your dog–it can help you create a deep bond, too. In fact, when your dog looks at you, their brain releases oxytocin. The oxytocin is know as the love hormone, and your dog releases it every time they look into your eyes.
3. They Get Excited When You Get Home
Dogs can’t contain themselves when they’re happy, that’s why they get excited every time their favorite person arrives. They will Jump, bark (of happiness), and you will receive some kisses, be happy and celebrate because this is love. They are absolutely thrilled to see you! And, chances are, you’re very excited too!
4. The Most Prized Treasure
The most prized treasure a dog has apart from you, is the its toy. If your dog gives you its toy, it is a demonstration of love and affection, do not reject it, grab it and hand it over again.
5. Kisses
It is another way to say hey human I love you and I want to be with you for the rest of my life.
6. They Protect You
A dog is not only a friend, but it is also someone who will protect you. There are many stories in which dogs rescue their owner from danger.
7. Get Jealous
Your dog knows you’re of its property, so he doesn’t like to share, never. Keep in mind that not all dogs are like that, some of them are very easy-going regarding sharing.
The bottom line? Our dogs love us unconditionally–they just sometimes express it in weirder ways. These signs of puppy love can help you determine if you and your pupper are truly bonded.
If your dog is an important part of your life (and let’s be honest, if someone asked if you had any kids, you’d count Fido as one),
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Boolean operation with Anatomical models
I would like to use boolean operation (intersection) with a certain section of an anatomical model(V3). As far as i understand i could not do it because the organs are not solid, and since they are licensed parts, i am not allowed to export as solids.
Is there any way to do this operation ?
Thank you
One way is to clone the duke model as static, i.e., right click on DUKE and clone as static .
Then, just select the skin (inside DUKE static folder) and try to intersect with other object you want. One drawback of this is it will create a hollow object. Try this method once.
However, if you can be more clear with what exactly you want, i can try to help more with the problem.
Suchit Kumar
Hello Suchit,
I tried to clone as static but the boolean operation option is not appearing.
My final aim was to obtain a mask of Duke torso which is modified by removing 1 cm thickness from skin to inside the body.
I thought to realize this by intersecting a solid with Duke, then stretching the resulting object.
Hello again
I tried to make mask as you mentioned using DUKE model. However, i am still unsuccessful, i just succeeded until making the hollow (attached screenshot).
I tried to export and make it full 3d object. But exporting is difficult due to licensed model.
I suggest rather than using model to make mask. You can make mask either in MATLAB or other program you used using the post-process result. For example, make the 3D logical array of DUKE result in MATLAB and there are open source-code to convert MAT to STL model. And then it can be used in sim4life as another object.
Hope it helps.
Suchit Kumar
just to comment on doing booleans with licensed models. this is completely possible, as Suchit says. Sometimes I think users get confused by the lock symbols shown in the model. These locks are not related to the license protection at all, they are there because the model is posable and modifying individual parts would break the posability.
For you I would suggest to download the shell (surface enclosing the complete model) of DUKE and do the boolean operation with the shell only. For Duke you could use:
Since the shell is not license protected you can modify it, save it as STL or whatever format and load it other software tools if needed (e.g. MATLAB). To make it a solid the easiest method is to import the STL file and check the box "Import as Solid".
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Coping with Diabetes
Every day, in the United States, more than 2000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed. Type II diabetes, the most prevalent form of diabetes worldwide, often shows few or even no symptoms!
After eating, food is broken down into what is known as glucose, a sugar carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Using a hormone known as insulin, made in the pancreas, cells process glucose into energy.
Because cells in the muscles, liver, and fat do not use insulin properly in the body of a person with type II diabetes, they have problems converting food into energy. Eventually, the pancreas cannot make enough insulin for the body’s needs. The amount of glucose in the body increases, and the cells are starved of energy.
This starvation of the cells, paired with the high blood glucose level can damage nerves and blood vessels. This leads to complications such as kidney disease, nerve problems, blindness, and heart ailments.
There are a lot of factors that can help to attribute to diabetes cases – lifestyle, environment, heredity – and those who are at risk should be screened regularly to prevent diabetes. Those that are already diagnosed with diabetes should aim to keep their glucose level under control.
But how do you know if you have type II diabetes? After all, it has few symptoms, often no symptoms in some patients. However, if you notice an increased thirst or hunger, a change in weight, or blurred vision, getting tested for type II diabetes is necessary, as only your doctor will be able to help you find the treatment steps necessary to being able to manage your life with diabetes.
Simple changes such as eating right, managing your weight, and keeping your blood sugar level under control may be enough. However, you doctor may prescribe diabetes-regulating medications to assist you in controlling your type II diabetes.
Diabetes is a serious ailment with extreme consequences if it isn’t treated properly. But if you follow your doctor’s advice and maintain both your lifestyle and blood sugar levels, you can help to prevent the more serious consequences from occurring.
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RESOLV.CONF(5) Linux Programmer's Manual RESOLV.CONF(5)
resolv.conf - resolver configuration file
The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). The resolver configuration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process. The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of keywords with values that provide various types of resolver information. The configuration file is considered a trusted source of DNS information (e.g., DNSSEC AD-bit information will be returned unmodified from this source).
If this file does not exist, only the name server on the local machine will be queried; the domain name is determined from the hostname and the domain search path is constructed from the domain name.
The different configuration options are:
nameserver Name server IP address
Internet address of a name server that the resolver should query, either an IPv4 address (in dot notation), or an IPv6 address in colon (and possibly dot) notation as per RFC 2373. Up to MAXNS (currently 3, see <resolv.h>) name servers may be listed, one per keyword. If there are multiple servers, the resolver library queries them in the order listed. If no nameserver entries are present, the default is to use the name server on the local machine. (The algorithm used is to try a name server, and if the query times out, try the next, until out of name servers, then repeat trying all the name servers until a maximum number of retries are made.)
domain Local domain name.
Most queries for names within this domain can use short names relative to the local domain. If set to '.', the root domain is considered. If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the local hostname returned by gethostname(2); the domain part is taken to be everything after the first '.'. Finally, if the hostname does not contain a domain part, the root domain is assumed.
search Search list for host-name lookup.
The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain name. This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces or tabs separating the names. Resolver queries having fewer than ndots dots (default is 1) in them will be attempted using each component of the search path in turn until a match is found. For environments with multiple subdomains please read options ndots:n below to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks and unnecessary traffic for the root-dns-servers. Note that this process may be slow and will generate a lot of network traffic if the servers for the listed domains are not local, and that queries will time out if no server is available for one of the domains.
This option allows addresses returned by gethostbyname(3) to be sorted. A sortlist is specified by IP-address-netmask pairs. The netmask is optional and defaults to the natural netmask of the net. The IP address and optional network pairs are separated by slashes. Up to 10 pairs may be specified. Here is an example:
Options allows certain internal resolver variables to be modified. The syntax is
options option ...
where option is one of the following:
Sets RES_DEBUG in _res.options (effective only if glibc was built with debug support; see resolver(3)).
Sets a threshold for the number of dots which must appear in a name given to res_query(3) (see resolver(3)) before an initial absolute query will be made. The default for n is 1, meaning that if there are any dots in a name, the name will be tried first as an absolute name before any search list elements are appended to it. The value for this option is silently capped to 15.
Sets the amount of time the resolver will wait for a response from a remote name server before retrying the query via a different name server. This may not be the total time taken by any resolver API call and there is no guarantee that a single resolver API call maps to a single timeout. Measured in seconds, the default is RES_TIMEOUT (currently 5, see <resolv.h>). The value for this option is silently capped to 30.
Sets the number of times the resolver will send a query to its name servers before giving up and returning an error to the calling application. The default is RES_DFLRETRY (currently 2, see <resolv.h>). The value for this option is silently capped to 5.
Sets RES_ROTATE in _res.options, which causes round-robin selection of name servers from among those listed. This has the effect of spreading the query load among all listed servers, rather than having all clients try the first listed server first every time.
Sets RES_NOCHECKNAME in _res.options, which disables the modern BIND checking of incoming hostnames and mail names for invalid characters such as underscore (_), non-ASCII, or control characters.
Sets RES_USE_INET6 in _res.options. This has the effect of trying an AAAA query before an A query inside the gethostbyname(3) function, and of mapping IPv4 responses in IPv6 "tunneled form" if no AAAA records are found but an A record set exists. Since glibc 2.25, this option is deprecated; applications should use getaddrinfo(3), rather than gethostbyname(3).
Some programs behave strangely when this option is turned on.
ip6-bytestring (since glibc 2.3.4)
Sets RES_USEBSTRING in _res.options. This causes reverse IPv6 lookups to be made using the bit-label format described in RFC 2673; if this option is not set (which is the default), then nibble format is used. This option was removed in glibc 2.25, since it relied on a backward-incompatible DNS extension that was never deployed on the Internet.
ip6-dotint/no-ip6-dotint (glibc 2.3.4 to 2.24)
Clear/set RES_NOIP6DOTINT in _res.options. When this option is clear (ip6-dotint), reverse IPv6 lookups are made in the (deprecated) zone; when this option is set (no-ip6-dotint), reverse IPv6 lookups are made in the zone by default. These options are available in glibc versions up to 2.24, where no-ip6-dotint is the default. Since ip6-dotint support long ago ceased to be available on the Internet, these options were removed in glibc 2.25.
edns0 (since glibc 2.6)
Sets RES_USE_EDNSO in _res.options. This enables support for the DNS extensions described in RFC 2671.
single-request (since glibc 2.10)
Sets RES_SNGLKUP in _res.options. By default, glibc performs IPv4 and IPv6 lookups in parallel since version 2.9. Some appliance DNS servers cannot handle these queries properly and make the requests time out. This option disables the behavior and makes glibc perform the IPv6 and IPv4 requests sequentially (at the cost of some slowdown of the resolving process).
single-request-reopen (since glibc 2.9)
Sets RES_SNGLKUPREOP in _res.options. The resolver uses the same socket for the A and AAAA requests. Some hardware mistakenly sends back only one reply. When that happens the client system will sit and wait for the second reply. Turning this option on changes this behavior so that if two requests from the same port are not handled correctly it will close the socket and open a new one before sending the second request.
no-tld-query (since glibc 2.14)
Sets RES_NOTLDQUERY in _res.options. This option causes res_nsearch() to not attempt to resolve an unqualified name as if it were a top level domain (TLD). This option can cause problems if the site has ``localhost'' as a TLD rather than having localhost on one or more elements of the search list. This option has no effect if neither RES_DEFNAMES or RES_DNSRCH is set.
use-vc (since glibc 2.14)
Sets RES_USEVC in _res.options. This option forces the use of TCP for DNS resolutions.
The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If more than one instance of these keywords is present, the last instance wins.
The search keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be overridden on a per-process basis by setting the environment variable LOCALDOMAIN to a space-separated list of search domains.
The options keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be amended on a per-process basis by setting the environment variable RES_OPTIONS to a space-separated list of resolver options as explained above under options.
The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and the keyword (e.g., nameserver) must start the line. The value follows the keyword, separated by white space.
Lines that contain a semicolon (;) or hash character (#) in the first column are treated as comments.
/etc/resolv.conf, <resolv.h>
gethostbyname(3), resolver(3), host.conf(5), hosts(5), nsswitch.conf(5), hostname(7), named(8)
Name Server Operations Guide for BIND
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3 Useful Tips for Kitchen Lighting July 29, 2020
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3 Useful Tips for Kitchen Lighting, ,
Kitchens play host to a variety of tasks, from homework at the dinner table to cooking and socializing with family. Because the kitchen is used for so much more than cooking, the lighting you choose can play an important role in function as well as creating ambiance. Use the guide below to explore the ways you can use lighting to create a more practical and welcoming kitchen.
How to Light a Kitchen
1. Use Layers
Traditional fixtures don't provide adequate light for every task performed in the kitchen. Layering your light fixtures will help provide coverage for a variety of tasks, including food prep stations, over the stove, and above the kitchen sink.
Layering your lights will also help reduce glare, and provide illumination in darker spaces, such as pantries and deep cabinets. Recessed lighting is ideal as your primary light source, while hanging fixtures provide a focal point for individualized tasks.
2. Add Ambiance
lightingCreate a soft, subtle glow in your kitchen while also filling in gaps in your lighting. Look for dimmable LED strip lights that can easily be mounted beneath your cabinetry or countertops to add gentle illumination to dark spaces.
Dimmable lights can be darkened to create a relaxing atmosphere during a meal and brightened when cooking or entertaining. They also serve as a convenient task light, or as a nightlight, which is especially useful in homes with young children.
3. Use LED Lights
LED lights have become the standard in kitchen lighting. They're widely available in a variety of styles and colors that are both energy-efficient and long-lived, saving you money on utility expenses, as well as the cost of replacement bulbs.
Unlike incandescent bulbs, LED bulbs stay cool, reducing heat in your kitchen. They also last significantly longer than traditional bulbs, making them an ideal choice for hard-to-reach places, such as recessed fixtures in tall ceilings, above cabinetry, or in pendant lights.
For attractive and functional kitchen lights, visit Wiseway Design Showroom in Lexington, KY. For over 50 years, their team has provided a wide variety of services and fixtures to help illuminate your home, inside and out. Featuring industrial, commercial, LED, indoor, and outdoor lighting options, you're sure to find what you're looking for in their showroom. Contact them today at (859) 259-0466 to book an appointment or visit their website to view their extensive catalog.
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With the PGA Tour back in spring form and the NBA and NHL playoffs in their quarterfinal matchups, it gives plenty of opportunities for comedian Norm Macdonald — late of Comedy Central’s short-lived Sports Show with Norm Macdonald — to offer running analysis and play-by-play commentary via Twitter @normmacdonald.
Macdonald took a break from that late last night to also clarify where he stands as a comedian.
Because too many of you, perhaps, have tried to pigeonhole or label him.
So Norm Macdonald set the record straight regarding the comedy of Norm Macdonald. As well as what he sees as those who truly engage in anti-comedy or meta-comedy. In his own words (spelling/typos corrected, but native Canadian tongue preserved):
“I’ve never been a person who uses labels I hardly understand. But, it’s been pointed out to me of late that I, myself, have been labelled. The label that has been sometimes given me is meta-comic or anti-comic. I was never sure what it meant, the word does not exist in the OED, so today I looked to see if it was on Wikipedia.
It makes sense.
A pretend word on a pretend encyclopaedia. So I read the thing and I saw my name, which I half-expected and made me fully appalled. I’m not an anti-comic and I’m not a meta-comic. And I despise anyone who is. Because these people are not comics, and they ridicule comics and do not like comics and satirize and parody comics. I am a comic and these (anti-comics and meta-comics) are my enemies.
Every joke I’ve ever told I found funny at the time. Sometimes, looking back, I found them unfunny. But at the time, they made me laugh.
The first time I remember being accused of being an anti-comic was during the Roast of Bob Saget. This is because my jokes were not dirty, but instead clean. I do not like insulting people and did not want to do the roast but my friend Bob Saget asked me to and I said yes. The producer of the show said to be shocking, and I truly believed that doing clean jokes in this context would be shocking. But, as far as the jokes I delivered, I found each of them funny, in their own way. The second time, this accusation struck me, was when I did a joke about a moth on the Conan O’Brien joke. It was called a shaggy dog story. It was not. It was called an anti-joke. It was not. It was a very funny joke and that is why the audience laughed hard and long. They did not laugh because it was a comment on bad jokes and how we all know they are bad. They laughed because it was a very good joke.
The truth is all anti-comedy, or meta-comedy, is worthless. It is for the weak and cowardly. The idea is this. The performer does not find the comedy he sees to be funny. So he chooses the worst he can find and ridicules it. It is not comedy. It is critique. And it is not funny. And, of course, that is what is supposed to make it funny. But it has never worked. Never. Many point to Andy Kaufman as an anti-comic. When they do, they expose themselves to be the idiots they are. Andy Kaufman was a comic. He used comedic techniques, he ridiculed no comedic techniques. Andy Kaufman was one of the greatest comics ever, because of his large arsenal of comedic weapons, which he used only when necessary. Andy Kaufman was not an anti-comic. But he spawned many. Being such a fine and original voice, Andy Kaufman, a great comic, was misunderstood. But he was not misunderstood by the masses. They loved him. He was misunderstood by a small minority who were convinced he was misunderstood by the masses. And this minority was going to let everyone know that they understood, they “got” the ungettable Andy. And some grew up to take the stage, where their mission would be to follow in the footsteps of their hero, whom they considered misunderstood. And he was misunderstood. By them. I say they because I don’t want to name anyone but I am sure you know of whom I speak. And so they perform their anti comedy which is comprised of this. ‘I have found a form of comedy I find bad so I will do it, but I will do it intentionally bad’ is their credo. Both are bad. Anti-comics, when you come right down to it are critics, which may be why they find favor among, guess who, critics.
So, just for the record, I am not an anti-comic or meta-comic, I am a comic and therefore despise anyone who ridicules what I love. The end.”
Norm Macdonald returns with new episodes on the Video Podcast Network today, May 12.
Here is the promo:
Norm Macdonald at the Roast of Bob Saget, on Comedy Central, in 2008:
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Countering the Myths of Cannabis Banking
By Dama Financial
Myth 1: It is illegal for Banks to serve Cannabis-related Businesses because marijuana is illegal under federal law.
The Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) makes it illegal under federal law to manufacture, distribute, or dispense marijuana. However, 10 states plus Washington D.C. have fully legalized marijuana and 33 states have legalized it for medical uses.
In 2014, the U.S. Treasury acknowledged banking relationships between financial institutions and legal cannabis-related businesses (CRBs) through its release of FinCen guidance. The guidance stated that serving CRBs was a risk-based decision, and expressed that thorough customer due diligence is a critical aspect of making an assessment and whether a CRB implicates the Cole Memo priorities or violates state law. A financial institution can legally transact with a CRB if the institution establishes and maintains an effective compliance program that adheres to the FinCen guidance.
Myth 2: CRBs can qualify for traditional business banking and payment processing services if they hide their marijuana-related activity with a shell company and limit their cash deposits.
Some CRBs have access to banking through federal and state-chartered banks and credit card processing by not disclosing they are a cannabis-related business. However, banks and payment processing companies will eventually figure out they are a cannabis-related business and close the bank account and request their funds be withdrawn.
Myth 3: Transparent cannabis banking is expensive.
Compared to traditional business banking, this is true. Banks that follow FinCEN guidance to serve cannabis-related businesses must invest in extensive due diligence and regulatory compliance technology and processes, and human capital which gets passed on to their banking clients.
Banks and credit unions which advertise a low fee for servicing cannabis-related businesses may not be fully following FinCEN guidance, charge excessive transactional fees in addition to a monthly fee, or may limit the banking services available to their CRB customers.
Compared to 5% – 8% average credit card transaction fee for high-risk merchants, Dama Clients feel a 2% fee on deposits into a Dama-managed FDIC-insured business bank account is reasonable to keep their cash safe, access convenient online banking and receive support from a dedicated Relationship Manager. Dama Clients can also invest their excess funds in a secondary 1% interest-earning account.
Myth 4: Operating my cannabis business with only cash is lower cost than banking or accepting electronic payments.
Often overlooked is the cumulative cost of operating a cash-intensive business, which has been estimated to be 5 – 15% of receipts. Not only are these businesses targets for criminal activity but roughly 90% of financial loss in the marijuana industry can be chalked up to employee theft. Dama Financial’s armored cash courier partners carry adequate insurance that covers cash picked until it is deposited into their account. Dama’s bank partners provide up to $250,000 FDIC-insurance on each account. Keeping low amounts of cash on hand reduces vulnerabilities to burglaries and violence against their employees, customers, and their community.
For more information about Cannabis Banking and Payment Processing, call (877) 401-3262 or schedule a consultation. Please mention that you heard about Dama Financial from CANORML.
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Why Does Florida Keep Getting Sinkholes?
In Residential Blog Posts by John Topa
By: Elaina Zachos, National Geographic
Frank Neumann got quite a shock around 1 a.m. on Thursday when he heard a sinkhole open up at his retirement community in central Florida. A few hours later, around 3 a.m., police knocked on Neumann’s door and told him he had to leave.
“I heard some noise,” Neumann tells WCJB. “I thought it was thunder. Evidently that was the ground crashing in on the sinkhole.”
Five other sinkholes have opened up in the area. In addition to Neumann’s home, one other house has been condemned and two have been evacuated.
But how do sinkholes form? Why does Florida get so many of them? And what’s with the nearby lake draining like a bathtub? Those questions explained below:
Sinkholes are depressions that gradually form in the ground when water erodes an underlying layer of rock or soil. There are two types, and the type in this video above occurs when water has dissolved the rock underneath soil to create a gaping cavity sheathed with only a thin layer of earth. Without support from rock, the top soil layer collapses.
Sinkholes are common in areas where groundwater can naturally dissolve the rocks below the land surface. Soluble rocks like salt beds and domes, gypsum, limestone, and other carbonate rocks are high-risk materials.
Florida is no stranger to sinkholes, and the Sunshine State has been plagued by them before. Resorts and other homes have been swallowed in the past. About 20 percent of the U.S. is susceptible to sinkholes, and the landscapes of Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania are also attractive terrain for these natural phenomena.
After the sinkholes swallowed land in the neighborhood, a nearby lake quickly began to drain at a “fairly rapid pace,” says Paul Bloom of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. (Watch: “Mesmerizing Drone Footage Shows ‘Whirlpool’ Draining This Lake”)
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What treatment procedures are involved in dealing with blood clots?
What treatment procedures are involved in dealing with blood clots?
Treatment for a blood clot ranges from symptomatic care to more aggressive intervention, depending on the severity of a person’s condition and the location of the clot.
Typical treatment for venous blood clots
A superficial blood clot will be symptomatically treated and involve medications, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen, which reduce inflammation and alleviate pain. These clots are low risk and typically do not embolise, causing more serious physical complications. The reason for this is because superficial veins connect with perforator veins, which have valves that act much like strainers. These normally block any clots from being able to travel through the system and enter the deeper veins. Risk of a clot embolising and travelling from a superficial origin is hence low.
Clots in the deep venous system may be treated as follows:
• Anticoagulant medications (blood thinners): Prescribed medications are likely to depend on a person’s current condition at the time of diagnosis. Has the clot embolised? Or is the clot immobile? Are there any signs of other medical conditions which could be underlying causes?
Novel oral anticoagulants (NOACS) are often prescribed for instances of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. These medications are also known as DOACS (direct oral anticoagulants) and work to block factors contributing to the clotting cascade. The medications fall into categories known as Factor Xa inhibitors and direct thrombin inhibitors. Heparin is one medication that has been frequently used in the treatment of blood clots, and is normally injected just beneath the surface of the skin with the aim of ‘thinning out’ the blood in the system. As an injectable medication, it reaches the system quickly and treats a person’s condition in a short space of time. This can be very efficient if the affected person is unstable, often as a result of another medical condition. Some low molecular weight heparin medications may be safe for use in pregnant women who develop clots.
Another anticoagulant is Warfarin (administered in oral pill form), which works by blocking clotting factors II, VII, IX and X (all of which depend on vitamin K). It can take up to several days for the medication to reach and maintain a therapeutic effect in the system. In many instances, Heparin may be administered first for rapid effect and then Warfarin thereafter in order to maintain anticoagulation.
Medication use will be carefully monitored by the treating medical team as it can have adverse interactions with certain foodstuffs and other medications. Newer medications (such as apixaban, dalteparin and dabigatran) have been developed with fewer known adverse reactions and can be prescribed as an alternative to Heparin or Warfarin. Blood thinners will be taken for at least 3 months following a diagnosis of a blood clot and the commencement of treatment11. This is to treat an existing clot as well as prevent new clots from forming.
• Thrombolytic therapy: These medications may be preferred in instances where a person is severely ill and displays symptoms of shock or even heart strain. (12) They can also be used if other anticoagulant medications have not been as effective. Medications are classified as TPA (tissue plasminogen activators) which are usually injected into a peripheral vein (normally in the arm) for rapid anticoagulant effects. Known as ‘clot busting drugs’ the medication can be 'dripped' directly into a clot via a catheter (a long, thin and flexible tube) or IV line (intravenously) to alleviate discomfort. An interventional radiologist may administer this treatment. This therapy is usually used for arterial clots (e.g. coronary artery clots).
Medication use will be carefully managed by a treating team. All medications must be taken exactly as directed by a prescribing doctor as incorrect intake levels can have serious consequences (leading to possible side-effects or complications). A doctor will also carefully monitor the use of multiple medications (including supplements and herbal products) for potentially harmful interactions. No new substances should be taken without the prior knowledge of the treating doctor. A pregnant woman should also take extra precaution as certain medications can result in potential pregnancy complications, as well as birth defects.
Other treatment measures can include:
• Vena cava filter: An IVC filter (vena cava filter) may sometimes be recommended in the event that a person cannot (or is unable to) be effectively treated with blood thinning medication. A small cone-shaped filter will then be surgically placed inside a large abdominal vein, known as the inferior vena cava vein. This is designed to 'catch a clot' and prevent it from embolising in the system. Blood flow is not, however, restricted and can move freely through the filter normally and safely.
• Venous thrombectomy: In the case of severe thrombosis or embolism, a clot may be required to be surgically removed. A doctor will discuss all necessary risks with a person (should an individual be in a state to make the decision for surgery along with the medical professional).
• Medical / graduated compression stockings: These are specially designed to help treat deep vein thrombosis and can significantly reduce swelling in the legs, as well as aid in reducing the likelihood of new clots forming in the veins. Stockings (without a covered toe portion) are worn over the feet and stretch up towards the knee. The stockings are normally tightest at the ankles and gradually become a little looser towards the end (just beneath or just over the knee). This is to stimulate normal compression (which would naturally take place in the calf) and encourage blood flow back up the leg (eventually returning to the heart). Stockings can be worn for extended periods of time, significantly reducing symptoms of DVT (clotting and blood pooling) in the lower extremities.
Typical treatment for arterial blood clots
Treatment is often more aggressive when it comes to a blood clot in the arterial system. Medication will be administered for quick action and absorption into the system (via the peripheral arteries), targeting the clot and thereby helping to restore blood supply. Medications can help to dissolve a clot (these are known as tissue plasminogen activators / TPA).
Treatment may also involve cardiac catheterisation (to locate the blockage in a blood vessel), as well as the surgical placement of a tiny balloon at the tip of a catheter (which is inflated with a salt water solution or X-ray dye once placed to open the blocked blood vessel) and a stent (to keep the blood vessel open this is known as an angioplasty). A stent is essentially a mesh tube which a doctor will place inside an affected blood vessel, most often in the coronary arteries (supplying the heart). The entire procedure will be guided by X-ray imagery to determine the exact location of the clot and perform the angioplasty.
An angioplasty, which mechanically opens up arteries in danger of closing completely, is usually performed within 60 to 90 minutes of the diagnosis of a myocardial infarction / heart attack being made, making it a time-sensitive surgical procedure. (13) It helps to restore blood flow quickly, along with intravenously administered medications – TPA or tenecteplase (TNK). The procedure does carry some potential risks including the formation or more blood clots and rupturing of the blood vessels. It has been noted that stents have caused additional blood clots in some individuals. This is due to the fact that a foreign object in the body is in constant contact with blood and can lead to the formation of clots at the location in which it is placed. Modern procedures use stents which are coated with medications to try and alleviate risk of this taking place, instead of the previous versions which were bare-metal.
Risk versus benefit will always be carefully assessed by the treating medical team. Surgery is generally more successful if a stent is left in the artery, as narrowing (known as restenosis) can occur down the line following the procedure. A fabric stent may be used for larger arteries.
Treatment of this kind is also often used for those having a heart attack and helps to dissolve the blood clot, and just as importantly, minimise potential damage to the heart. In severe instances, heart bypass surgery may be necessary for extensive blood supply restriction due to damage caused by the clot.
Following any surgery, especially one where a stent was placed, a doctor will advise the following in order to minimise risk of future blood clots:
• Maintain a healthy blood pressure
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Ensure healthy cholesterol levels
• Get in regular exercise
• Quit or do not smoke
Anticoagulant medication will also be prescribed following surgery, along with regular medical check-ups and blood tests to monitor overall health condition, as well as effects of the drugs used for treatment.
An embolism which results in a stroke is also often treated with TPA. An interventional radiologist or neurologist can also operate to surgically remove the clot from the brain by threading a catheter into the blocked artery, locating the thrombus and removing it (a similar technique to the removal of clots from the peripheral artery).
11. AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). August 2017. Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Blood Clots: https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/prevention/disease/bloodclots.html#treatment [Accessed 28.08.2018]
12. European Respiratory Review. 2015. Developments in the management and treatment of pulmonary embolism: http://err.ersjournals.com/content/24/137/484 [Accessed 28.08.2018]
13. University of Maryland Medical Center. July 2016. Heart attack and acute coronary syndrome: https://www.umms.org/ummc/patients-visitors/health-library/in-depth-patient-education-reports/articles/heart-attack-and-acute-coronary-syndrome [Accessed 28.08.2018]
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My Kids’ Favorite Soup
Carrot-orange soup with a drizzle of olive oil.
This recipe for carrot-and-orange soup, adapted from the classic Silver Palate Cookbook, is hands-down my kids’ favorite soup. Chicken soup is a not very close second. The sweetness of it makes it a kid pleaser (the sweetness can be amped up with a bit of honey if your orange juice is not very sweet). However, it is also elegant enough to be served to guests as a starter, with a drizzle of olive oil or truffle oil on top (yes, I know, truffle oil is fake).
If you have no oranges on hand to juice, you can use store-bought in a pinch, but the brightness of fresh-squeezed really does add something, as does a bit of orange zest.
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Carrot and Orange Soup
(Adapted from The Silver Palate Cookbook)
modest portions
modest portions
1. Add olive oil to a pot or stock pot. Add onions and cook over low heat until tender, about 10 minutes.
2. Add carrots and stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until carrots are very tender, about 30 minutes.
3. Use an immersion blender to process, or remove solids and process in a food processor or blender.
4. Return purée to the pot and add orange juice and honey, if desired.
5. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Simmer until heated through. Add orange zest to taste and serve immediately.
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Researchers optimistic that eelgrass can reduce carbon and acidity in seawater
As the data roll in, University of California scientists are more optimistic that eelgrass, like the kind that grows around Newport Beach, can lessen ocean acidity and make the water more hospitable to ecologically valuable organisms.
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E-authentication a must to curb Aadhaar frauds: UIDAI CEO
Aadhaar has a very strong data protection system because it has all the internationally accepted core data principles like collection, sharing limitations, etc built in.
The government has asked all agencies including banks not to rely on paper-based Aadhaar but authenticate it using biometrics or one-time-password since paper-based Aadhaar can be faked, said Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India.
In an interview to ET’s Surabhi Agarwal, Pandey said the Aadhaar Act also mandates using Aadhaar with authentication. This comes after over 200 government websites had published the Aadhaar numbers and bank account details of beneficiaries.
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There is a risk of people creating fake Aadhaar since UID numbers were put online. How are you addressing this ?
When we are saying that agencies link your ID with Aadhaar, we are not expecting that you link with the paper-based Aadhaar. We are saying that either it should be biometrically authenticated or Aadhaar OTP should be verified.
Once you biometrically authenticate, then the possibility of somebody giving a fake Aadhaar or giving somebody else’s Aadhaar number and linking it with a different PAN or account is ruled out. The idea is that you have to use Aadhaar properly which means that you have to use Aadhaar authentication. Once you do that, then the chances of duplicate, bogus, fake linking will be eliminated.
Have you issued any directive to agencies to necessarily authenticate Aadhaar through biometrics or OTP before using it?
We have within our regulation. It is in Aadhaar authentication regulation 3 and 4, where we are saying that use Aadhaar through authentication. It lays down the kinds of options available.
Almost 210 government websites had published Aadhaar data online. How much of a risk is it since so many websites have published so much sensitive information?
Certain websites had published it during the initial few months in compliance with the Right to Information Act’s proactive disclosure norms, because they needed to disclose the names, address and bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
But bank account number is personal sensitive information. How did they publish that?
They were not correct. They were also publishing Aadhaar numbers and that also was not correct. When it was brought to our notice, we told them that there is an Aadhaar Act and you should not do this. Then they stopped displaying it. Then the question arose that information on some individual’s Aadhaar number and bank details were available in the public domain, so has their security been compromised?
To that, our answer is no. Because knowing someone’s bank account detail doesn’t facilitate someone to go and actually hack into their account, as someone has to know the password, PIN, etc. Similar is the case with Aadhaar number as Aadhaar will always be with some Aadhaar authentication.
But most agencies are not using Aadhaar with authentication currently?
That’s why we are telling all agencies that in the initial stages you can accept paper-based Aadhaar, but at some point in time you have to authenticate that person under the Aadhaar Act.
What actions have you taken to inform banks and others about the importance of authentication?
We have our weekly meeting where we call all stakeholders and emphasise on the mode of authentication they should be choosing to achieve an optimum level of security.
How important is the data protection law in this context where such sensitive data is being put up online?
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The Main Types of Traffic Film Removers and Their Advantages
Generally, traffic film removers are alkaline-based detergents used to clean the exterior of all types of vehicles. They are stronger than ordinary detergents, so if you have a car, motorbike, truck, boat, or yacht, traffic film removers are the best way to clean them. They can easily remove dirt, grime, or grease from your vehicle. Traffic film removers can be bought from either online or land-based Industrial Chemical Suppliers. But before doing so, you should know some facts about this powerful vehicle cleaner.
The following are the four main types of traffic film removers, their characteristics, and their advantages.
5% RTU
This ready-to-use TFR is for general vehicle cleaning. It is often used to clean cars that are traversing the city’s clean roads. If you regularly clean your vehicle, this type of TFR suits your needs. 5% RTU should be used with a hot water pressure washer. Although considered as the weakest among traffic film removers, it is also the cheapest type.
10% RTU
This is the most commonly used TFR as it can clean somewhat dirty vehicles efficiently. Its versatility is one reason it is preferred by many. You can either use a hot or called water pressure washer or high-pressure sprayer. For quick and easy cleaning, this traffic film remover must be the best one for you.
15%-20% Concentrate
This has a higher concentration than RTUs, so it is more efficient in removing dirt, grime, or grease. It can even be used to clean the engine and chassis. If you find this concentrate too strong, you can remedy it by diluting it until you get the percentage you prefer.
Hyper Concentrate
This TFR is highly concentrated, and you have to dilute it before using it. This can be the most expensive among all the traffic film removers. But because they can be diluted, they can be cost-effective and versatile too. You can cut solutions that suits your need for the moment. For example, if your car is not that dirty, but you want to clean it for a trip to the restaurant, you can make a 5% RTU. You can also dilute a part of it to degrease the chassis or engine.
Indeed, traffic film removers are excellent vehicle cleaning agents. They also help us save money. But when using them, you should be very particular with the dwell time and mixture concentration. Traffic film removers can damage your vehicle surface if left beyond its dwell time and is too concentrated. The dwell time is the average time the traffic film remover is left on your car surface to do its job of lifting dirt, grime, and grease.… | <urn:uuid:7098075a-82e5-4113-b6ec-c656385f829e> | https://epices-moi.com/tag/grease/ | en | 0.948413 | 0.045704 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
How to put on a Crafternoon Tea
crafternoon tea
Firstly, what is a crafternoon tea? Its when you get together with friends for a few hours and ‘make’. Could be an afternoon or an evening, it doesn’t matter. It could even be a brunch get together if that’s the easiest time for everyone (eg: new mums).
Dare we mention it, but Christmas is not so far away and crafternoon teas are a great way to save time and money by making multiples of the same items and give them as gifts. Body butter, soy candles and pillowcases are just some quick and easy gift ideas.
Keep it simple
If you’re meeting up with old friends allows for lots and lots of talking time. You want to challenge yourself a bit but keep the project relatively easy (especially if wine is present) with minimal steps so there’s room for talking and completing a craft.
Lock it in
We recommend having your crafternoon at a set time every 4-6 weeks. This means everyone can block out this time on the calendar and in the diary well in advance.
Being organised means those with children can leave the kids with partner, grandparents or playdates. But at the end of the day, it’s up to each person to make it happen.
Take turns
Share the load and take turns at having it at different houses. Here are our top tips and questions to get you started.
1. Set up a Facebook groups so everyone can post craft ideas and what materials to bring (knitting needles, sewing machine, wooden beads).
2. Does everyone bring snacks or is it the responsibility of the host?
3. What is the cost of materials?
4. To get some ideas flowing how about a macramé plant hanger, bath bombs, jewellery making, pom pom garland, fabric dying or make your own food wraps.
And best of all
It’s the perfect way to catch and socialise, learn a new skill together and take home something of your own. Now, that’s a whole lot of feel-good endorphins right there!
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Regenerative medicine as a treatment for heel pain caused by plantar fasciosis.
Shoes and Plantar Fasciitis – Good Shoes, Bad Shoes
The plantar fascia is a ligament that supports the foot. It spans from the base of the heel to the bases of the toes. It is a strong ligament. It is strong in tensile strength. Tensile strength means pulling strength. If one stretches, for example, a wire, the point at which the wire breaks is called it’s tensile strength. It is hard to break a wire by stretching it but it can easily break if one twists the wire. The plantar fascia is similar – strong in tensile strength but weak in torsional or twisting strength. Excess twisting of the fascia causes heel pain due to plantar fasciitis.
How does twisting of the fascia occur. The answer is side to side motion. When the heel strikes the ground, the foot lowers to ground, rolls inward in a motion called pronation. It is the joint below the ankle joint called the subtalar joint that allows pronation. Pronation is a twisting motion. Some pronation is normal but too much or overpronation causes excess torsional stress on the fascia. Chronic repetitive twisting of the fascia causes damage.
If one steps onto a pillow, the foot pronates more, the arch lowers more. Many shoes sold nowadays are like pillows – very soft. Softness sells shoes. The area of the shoe from the heel to the ball of the foot should have some rigidity but flexibility should exist at the base of the toes. Shoes, historically, have 3 parts to the sole: the insole, the midsole and the outsole. The insole and outsole are visible but the midsole, when present, maintains the integrity of the shoe and support for the foot. The midsole contains the shank. The shank is a still plate that prevents twisting of the shoe in the middle and is what protects the heel, arch and plantar fascia. Steel shanks were invented over 800 years ago. So shoemakers were aware that the shank was a necessary part of shoe construction for centuries. It is only more recently that shanks were left out of the shoemaking process. Shanks do not need to be made out of steel. Newer shank materials include fiberglass, carbon graphite, hard plastics or even kevlar.
Steel shank boots
Steel shanks may still be found in certain work boots and other types of boots such as cowboy boots.
How can one tell if a shoe has a shank? Try bending the shoe in the middle. It should bend at the ball of the foot only.
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Public School Caught Red-Handed Targeting Kids in Hillary Push
The Clinton campaign sent out emails asking some high-schoolers to become "fellows."
The Clinton campaign sent out emails asking some high schoolers to become "fellows." (Reuters)
A public high school in Maine was caught red-handed trying to recruit students to work on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as a "community service opportunity"—without the knowledge or consent of parents.
Could you imagine the national media firestorm had the school been recruiting for Donald Trump's campaign?
Students at Marshwood High School in South Berwick received an email from the Clinton campaign—urging them to sign up for positions as unpaid "fellows."
"Hillary for New Hampshire is looking for smart, energetic winter fellows who are committed to winning the New Hampshire primary for Hillary Clinton," read the email from a campaign staffer. "Everyone working on the campaign now started off as a fellow at some point, so it is a great way of getting a different skill set whilst helping an important cause."
Tim and Elita Galvin were furious that their teenage son had received the solicitation—calling it "disingenuous and sneaky."
"My son didn't appreciate being targeted by anybody via his school email for a political campaign," Mrs. Galvin told me. "I'll be honest—he's not a fan of Hillary Clinton to begin with. He's done his homework and he doesn't like her."
The Galvins reached out to Paul Mehlhorn, the principal of the high school. They provided me with a copy of his emailed response.
"We often receive information from outside sources regarding opportunities for students to get involved in their communities," he wrote. "We pass on this information to provide students with ways they may meet the requirement to perform 50 hours of community service to graduate."
Mehlhorn went on to explain that students are not obligated to volunteer for Clinton's campaign, "nor does it suggest the school supports a particular political candidate, religious doctrine or branch of military."
"If other 'campaigns' were to seek volunteers, we would pass that on also," he noted.
The principal went to say that the email solicitation sounded like a great way to have a conversation with their children about understanding their choices in getting involved or not.
As you might imagine, Mr. and Mrs. Galvin were not all that thrilled with the principal's explanation.
"Politics doesn't belong there—Republican, Democrat, green, purple, white, whatever," Mrs. Galvin told me. "It doesn't belong in the schools. The kids get, we get so much of this—we get bombarded during the political campaigning season, which now is almost neverending. Those kids should be able to go to school and learn without having that noise around them or targeted at them."
I reached out to Mary Nash, the superintendent of schools. She told me it was a mistake to send out the email.
She said a school staffer had forwarded the email to students without providing "additional information regarding this community service opportunity."
However, the intentions were pretty well-explained in the email. They wanted minors to pound the pavement for Hillary Clinton.
She directed the principal to send a letter to moms and dads.
"In general, all staff must refrain from sending out any solicitations supporting any non-school organization," the principal wrote.
Mrs. Galvin said there is absolutely nothing wrong with students getting involved in political campaigns. However, the school overstepped its boundaries.
"If you want to campaign for someone—that's fine—but that's between the child and the parents," she said. "That's not for the campaign to target you at school and it's not for the school to suggest to you. That's between you and your parents."
Well said, Mrs. Galvin.
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Understanding the Hidden Costs for Caregivers
Caregivers are a special breed. They are driven by love and a sense of responsibility. It quickly becomes apparent that a lot of cost can go into being a caregiver and many people assume it’s much less expensive to be a caregiver than to utilize outside professional help. While senior care facilities have their own upsides, they are not always more expensive.
It is vitally important that if you are planning on becoming a fulltime caregiver to your aging parents, you understand the costs and all that goes into it. Understanding these aspects will help everyone in your circle of friends and family share in the commitment that goes with caregiving and have a deeper appreciation for the sacrifice involved. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at all these issues.
A Few Hidden Costs of Being a Caregiver:
Lost Income
In order to take on a full-time caregiving role, it will involve giving up a current job or career. This can mean a big loss of wages, the need to retire early and other impacts to the household income. Many polls suggest that the vast majority of people who take on the role of caregiving have had a negative impact on their careers.
Not Being as Employable
If a person becomes a caregiver for several years and then tries to re-enter the workforce, they often find it quite difficult. This is an especially frustrating problem when you consider how competitive it is to get a job due to high unemployment. This can lead to even higher unemployment as people who were caregivers feel lost.
Rising Cost of Health Care
It’s no secret that being a caregiver is stressful. It’s a proven fact that there are emotional and physical impacts that affect caregivers. Their own health is at risk and this means overall increased cost of living as they struggle to cover the cost of health care. This is especially tough when you consider that many people give up their health insurance coverage when they step down from their outside careers.
Retirement and Savings Lost
The truth of the matter is that caregivers take on a lot of personal expense. Recent studies report that nearly half of all caregivers have burned through savings and/or retirement. If they have walked away from their career for good, it’s quite possible they will never recoup these losses. Social Security benefits can also be lowered by leaving the workforce.
Lack of Productivity
Here’s a fact you might not think about: Businesses in America take a hit of $34 billion dollars every year from employees leaving to be caretakers for their senior loved ones. This sheds light on the fact that the costs of caregiving are not just with the person giving the care. It affects everyone in the bigger picture.
So, Where Do All These Costs Come From?
Caregiving can be costly for many reasons, not the least of which is the time spent giving the care. What many think will just be a few hours here and there turns into way more than they bargained for. There is often an expectation that it will be a short-term solution and it can end up being several years. This obviously can have a huge impact on your finances and can even wipe you out if you don’t plan well.
So How Do We Move Forward?
Here are some recommendations from the AARP to policy makers on planning for long-term costs of caregiving:
• Allow for workplace policies that are more family-friendly, including the option to work from home.
• Defend and protect the Family Medical Leave Act and have it in place.
• Offer tax credits for caregivers
• Increase funding for the National Family Caregiving Program
• Offer caregivers an income through publicly funded programs such as Medicaid.
The costs of caregiving can be staggering and there are no easy answers. It’s vital for everyone involved that we have the necessary dialogue to discover solutions, especially in this time when millions of aging Baby Boomers need our help and support!
If you need help providing care for your loved one, call us or visit our website to see how affordable in-home care assistance can be.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Cold March
Very blustery here today. Sunny but cold. I've been practicing while the radio is on, I heard Sam Rivers did that, to help focus his concentration, so lately I have a mix of current events and chords and scales bouncing around in my head.
Here's a short audio clip from my last solo performance (Delancey St. on the F Train, Uptown platform.)
Scott Abbott said...
Hey Tom. Your music is haunting and thought provoking. Unfortunately for me, one of the thoughts it's provoking is "what the hell is that tune?" Help me!
Tom said...
"Mormon Heritage" is a tune I composed, though it seems to have had the same effect on you as on me--I'm sure there are excerpts of other tunes, hymns, etc. in there, which is why you think you recognize it, and why i named it "Mormon Heritage." | <urn:uuid:1c4c4642-6e11-464f-932b-18a708bb4b6d> | http://abbotteyroad.blogspot.com/2008/03/cold-march.html | en | 0.978978 | 0.744049 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Now that the DIY shows are all the rage, it is pretty tempting to try some jobs around the house yourself. If you are experienced, handy or lucky, it may work out ok. However, unless you have a Maine contractor license, it is best to leave some jobs to the professionals. Here are some of the top times you should hire a contractor.
Demo a Wall
How many times have you heard, “We can just blow out this wall to make your room seem bigger.”? Well, folks, it isn’t always that easy. Most of us mere mortals don’t know when a wall is supporting the roof or upper level. Demolition on a wall is not something you should risk on your own unless you want to hire someone to reconstruct your house when the roof caves in.
Build or Update a Bathroom
Have you ever tried to remove or replace tile? Are you a plumber? If you answered no to either or both questions, back away from the room slowly and put the sledgehammer down. Find a licensed contractor experienced in bathroom renovations before your spouse finds out you were planning to tackle it yourself. You are welcome.
Create Your Dream Kitchen
So many possibilities, and so many ways your vision can go horribly wrong. From gas to electricity to plumbing, you would have to have a whole lot of renovation experience to make this work as a DIY project. It is best to let a contractor decide what expertise is needed and when. How sad would it be to see your beautiful new Carerra marble countertop lay in pieces on the ground because you thought that you could handle it with the help of your neighbor?
Make Structural Changes
A disaster by any other name would be just as awful. Don’t even consider this. There are probably permits involved, aside from the safety considerations. There is a reason contractors must be licensed. Let them show you why before you risk the life of you or your family.
By Henry
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Hardy Fin & Fly
The all important Exuviae
By Howard Taylor
Exuviae is the scientific term used to describe the remains of an exoskeleton, the waste skin left after the insect has moulted. Surprisingly, this shed skin of the animal can be important to biologists as it can often be used to identify the species of the animal and even its sex.
As it is not always practical to study insects, or even crustaceans or arachnids directly and because exuviae can be collected fairly easily, it can play an important part in helping biologists determine some general aspects of a species overall life cycle such as distribution, sex ratio, production and proof of breeding in a habitat.
The Latin word "exuviae" translates as "that which is stripped from a body" and this often overlooked slither of skin can also be very important to the fly fisher. As anglers, we often refer to the exuviae as a 'shuck'.
I have often watched the river, especially during popular mayfly time or a thick olive hatch on the southern chalk streams. Feeding trout become wary and home in on crippled insects, part way through emerging and trapped within their 'shuck'. As a guide, I can't count the occasions I've witnessed feeding fish ignore both the upright insect and the angler's dun imitation and repeatedly eat an emerging or crippled insect just millimetres from our fly.
How then, can we as anglers imitate this phase of the fly's lifecycle and therefore fool the most wary and selective of fish?
As a fly fishing mad youngster, I was inspired by the 1980 TV program for The World About Us with Brain Clarke and John Goddard entitled 'The Educated Trout' and of course their milestone book of the same year 'The Trout and the Fly'. Many years later, I had the pleasure of fishing with the late John Goddard. We sat together on an angler's bench surveying a beautiful stretch of Hampshire's river Dever. John lit a cigar and we watched both trout and grayling rise to blue winged olive. He kindly gave me a couple of his parachute olive JG emergers and explained how he would wet the blonde fly fur tail of the fly so it sank in the water and represented a translucent shuck suspended beneath the rest of the dry fly.
As well as being a wonderful fly fisher and fly dresser, John was a trained entomologist and Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. He is the author of twelve books on angling, entomology and fly tying and was a pioneer of precisely matching the hatch.
With modern day fly tying materials such as CDC these ideas have been taken even further and a variety of materials can be used to represent the exuviae in a multitude of dressings representing many species of aquatic insect.
Below is a selection of flies with exuviae and they are all fished as John recommended by wetting the 'tail' prior to casting the fly. A lick does just fine.
The JG Emerger
Hook: Kamasan B100 #14 or #16
Silk: brown
Wing: Calf's tail dyed dark grey and slit in a 'V' shape Wulff style
Shuck: Blonde 'Fly Fur' half the length of the body
Rid: Fine gold Veniard's no.14
Body: Slim and tapered olive-green Antron wool
Hackle: 6 turns of dark grey cock hackle tied parachute style around wing root.
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Hello readers and Merry Christmas! This week, I will be reviewing The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, but before we get into reviewing the book, I thought I would do a quick review of the television show too, since watching that is what led me to read the book which inspired it. Although the TV show does not have the same story line or characters as Jackson’s novel, it’s influence is evident after reading.
the-haunting-of-hill-house-wideSo What’s the Netflix original show about? The story follows the Crane family, Hugh and Olivia and their five children Steven, Shirley, Theodora, Luke, and Eleanora. Moving between past and present, we see the family as young children moving into Hill House while their parents renovate and flip the property, only to be haunted by increasingly violent and terrifying paranormal activity, then later as adults trying to cope with the tragedies that befell them at the property as well as the ghosts, both real and imagined, which haunt them still.
I absolutely adored this series and quite honestly I could gush and gush about all the reasons it was so incredible. First of all, the writing and directing by Mike Flanagan is utter perfection. This series could have been filled with cheap, jumpy scares and horror cliches, but instead the show has a slow burning tension, building to some genuinely scary scenes which stay with you long after you switch off. Flanagan’s decision to include a multitude of ghosts which have no part in the storyline or reason for being there, only adds to that sense of unease as the viewer constantly feels they are being watched. I love his slick and subtle directing style. Of note, is the constant, unedited and seamless shot of episode six at the funeral home which left me in complete awe (I cannot begin to imagine how much work and how many takes that took to pull off, but it was completely worth it). The show is undoubtedly modern and yet it maintains that sense of old fashioned, gothic horror. The switching between past and present maintains the suspense, giving the viewer just enough of a taste each episode to have them coming back for more. The cinematography, set designs and costumes all need their own round of applause and the acting is exceptional, with every single character being perfectly cast and played.
I have read a lot of complaints regarding the ending, with people calling it predictable and hammy, but truthfully I loved how it ended. With so many horror movies and shows these days ending that same ‘The end…or is it?’ kind of way, I was glad that there was a definite conclusion and I’m ok with it being a happy ending of sorts, because by the time the series ended I genuinely liked the Crane family and I was emotionally invested in their story. I was glad to see it worked out, for most of them anyway. But even with the finality of this nicely rounded conclusion, there are just enough questions left unanswered to allow for further series unrelated to the Cranes. What is the deal with Hill House? Was it built like that or did it become that way through tragedy of circumstance? Who are those other ghosts and what are their stories? And what of Mr Hill himself? Why did he build such a home? I for one am excited to find out and cannot wait for season two.
hauntingAfter watching the series, I was excited to read the story which inspired it. I have often found that a really amazing book can inspire an incredibly bad adaptation, but I have rarely experienced it the other way around, with a show or movie being better than the book. On this occasion, I loved the book as much as I loved the Netflix reimagining and as I said, whilst they are so different in so many ways, they have all of the important bits in common. So what’s the plot for the book?
Jackson is an incredible writer and way ahead of her time. From the first chapter, she creates an unnerving atmosphere leaving the reader ill at ease throughout. Whilst the tension builds slowly to its final and terrible conclusion, there is just enough action and paranormal activity throughout to keep you in suspense and make you almost impatiently want to continue reading. The characters are so well written, particularly the narrator Eleanor and the books exploration of mental health is so beautifully done, that it leads the reader to question whether any of it was even real. The house is so perfectly evoked and created by her wonderfully vivid descriptions, that it becomes a character in of itself, a living and breathing entity toying with its inhabitants. Finally, the perfectly creepy and beyond strange Dudley’s constantly warn the visitors and indeed the reader of the dangers that lurk, whilst never specifying what those dangers actually are. All you know is that something is very wrong with Hill House and at times, you wish the characters would heed those warnings. What I liked best about this book is that the scares aren’t obvious or cliched, but rather a slow and intense feeling of something being wrong. Her writing evokes an atmosphere that stays with you long after you have put the book down.
And that brings me to why I think this reimagining was such a success. There are things in common between the TV series and the books. Hill House is at the centre of both, of course, and the series keeps the Dudley’s as the housekeepers, uses the same names for the main characters and even lifts direct quotes from the book, but in terms of plot and characters, the two could not be more different. Unlike the book, where the visitors to Hill House go there knowing and indeed hoping to encounter paranormal activity, in the series the Crane family have no idea what awaits them there. But what Flanagan was able to do so perfectly, was to capture the ambiance and eery atmosphere of Jackson’s world. Despite its many differences, the series captures the same suspense and tension as the book as well as the same general feeling of unease. That’s why I was even more impressed with the TV show AFTER reading the book, because Flanagan has managed to recreate the feeling and vibes of Jackson’s incredible book, whilst updating it for a modern audience.
Both the book and the TV series get Five stars from me! Read and watch immediately.
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Exotic Dancer jobs in USA
Stripper Jobs in USA and Where to Find Them
The USA is the home of strip clubs and an appealing place to search for exotic dance jobs. A leading economic nation comprised of 50 states, a federal district and 5 self-governing territories. It is the third largest country by total area and has a population of over 325 million people. The USA is the third most populous country in the world. It is the world’s largest importer and second largest exporter in the world and the country hold 33% of the world’s wealth. The USA has the largest GDP in the world and is the largest military power in the world. The country has a cultural, political and scientific impact on the rest of the world and has a huge influence on the globe. Stripper jobs in the USA can be incredibly lucrative.
American strip clubs are the benchmark for gentlemen’s clubs worldwide. Therefore, stripper jobs in the USA are incredibly popular and in demand. There is huge earning potential and plenty of options for girls wanting to work. The annual revenue of strip clubs in the USA alone amounts to $3.1billion. There are around 4,000 strip clubs in the USA and this doesn’t account for private events and parties. Here you can search for available jobs in USA
From these figures, it is estimated that there are around 400,000 dancers in US clubs. They earn an average of $70,000-$100,000 per annum.
The largest markets for strip club jobs are Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta (with 19 strip clubs in the metro area), Miami, Orlando and LA. Metro Atlanta has an estimated strip club revenue of $240 million per year! Therefore, from these numbers, it is easy to see that exotic dancer jobs in the USA have huge potential for dancers wishing to cash in.
Where to look for stripper jobs in USA
Exotic dancer jobs in the USA are available for all kinds of girls. It isn’t necessary to look like a supermodel of straight from the pages of a men’s magazine. Some strip clubs in the USA will have extremely high standards in the recruitment process for the exotic dancer jobs they will have to fill. These clubs often require auditions, a probationary period and will have very structured rules that are enforced.
It is common for this type of venue to be located in major cities such as New York, LA, Las Vegas and similar major cities. With this, there are a higher proportion of high net worth residents, so they can provide girls with plenty of options. However, that is not to discount clubs that may be located in smaller towns. There is still plenty of money to be made.
Stripper jobs in USA in small towns
Some areas have only one strip club so minimal competition. Some clubs are located in areas with an extremely high proportion of men living in the surrounding localities due to industries operating nearby. These include male dominated industries such as mining and logistics (trucking and transport). These industries often include employees working on site for prolonged periods or away from their hometowns.
Strip clubs are often the meeting points and local hangouts for the itinerant workers, providing a captive audience for girls willing to do periods away or working trips. It is normally the case that the more isolated the location, the level of people willing to engage in the strip club scene increases.
These clubs are not for every dancer, even with the higher earning potential. Some girls like a more structured environment or different clientele.
Dancers who can work independently and stick up for themselves thrive in these environments. Therefore, more experienced girls tend to do better. However, not every girl can take these kinds of exotic dancer jobs in the USA for a number of reasons.
Study, family, other business commitments and a need to not spend long periods of time away from home means these clubs can have a limited pool of girls to work with. As a result, their recruitment process tends to be a little more relaxed in order to fill all of their slots. For some locations, it can even boil down to the fact that the clientele are of a more open minded nature in regards to their expectations of how a dancer should present herself.
How exotic dancer jobs in USA pay.
Most clubs in the USA work on the ‘lap dance system’. The club charges a house fee or expect the dancers to ‘tip out’. The idea of the tip out is that the stripper is obliged to pay various staff members a set fee, including, the DJ, security and sometimes bar tenders and certain management. The exotic dancer then keeps the rest of the money she earns. Some venues charge a percentage or ‘room fee’ on VIP bookings as a commission for the room use.
Tipping on stage is one of the focal points of the club. Stripper jobs in the USA can provide great income from stage performances. There is expectation for girls to be stronger on stage than other countries. However, the style they choose to dance can vary. Pole tricks are not obligatory if the striptease dancer has good stage presence. Read about exotic dancer jobs in international clubs.
Working in strip clubs in USA
The USA has extremely strict immigration laws and penalties. Most clubs require paperwork in the form of citizenship and residency. This is proven by having a social security number. The diverse culture of the USA means that you will find girls of every size, shape and colour in the clubs. The mix can be dependent on localities. Latinas, African-American girls, Caucasian, and European immigrants can all be found working.
Clients can find an dancer of any background to entertain them, though some clubs can be more segregated in some areas and cater to specific cultures. The abundance of lap dancing clubs in the USA means there is something for everyone. It is easy for all kinds of girls to find work and make money. Here you can read about stripper jobs.
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Jon Chua JX Releases Give It Back!
Australian-born artist, Jon Chua JX is back with his latest single, Give It Back after having a successful solo debut with Ready for Ya!
Credits: Bobby Tonelli
With the mix of hip-hop inspired beats and pop melodies, Give It Back sweeps through an absorbable amount of talented musical influences from an auditory standpoint while recognising the struggles within the inner conflicts through its lyrics. The song is an expression towards the longing of getting back to the untroubled times of life during an unpleasant romantic experience.
The ambiguous track highlights the creative horizons of Jon as a musician, creating stories of his personal life through music. Catchy beats throughout the song and chorus with perfectly rhymed lyrics such as, “Baby could you give my life back, Baby could you give my life back. Why you keep me guessing like that, I just really want my life back“. The brainchild of this song was co-written with FLANNEL ALBERT, an international artiste. Additionally, he engaged vocal production expertise from local producer/artist, Evanturetime.
Give It Back is now available on Spotify and all major music streaming platforms!
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Race
There’s never been a better time to talk to your children about racism, the actions of the police, and what BLM is doing to affect lasting change.
The scene is a familiar one: A teenager, a brand new driver’s license and dreams of the open road greet most parents around the time their child turns 16. But for Black parents in America, it marks a turning point in their child’s life. Known colloquially as “The Talk,” this conversation is usually what most young Black teenagers, especially boys, mark as the end of their childhood. In it, their parents must explain that with their skin color comes an added burden, and with it, an added script in case of a police officer. The phrases are common enough: “Yes sir. No sir.” “Keep your hands visible.” “Keep your license where you can reach it.” “Keep your music down.” “Never speed.” “Always pull over immediately.”
As a teen in a Southern state and the youngest of three, this was an annoying talk at best. I was aware, but sure my parents were being overly cautious. It took the experiences of my brothers, my friends and my own to realize that their concerns were all too true. Being Black is not easy. I’m not sure it will ever be. But the prevalence of “The Talk” and experiences like the death of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have proven to be catalysts for an important discussion. Black Lives Matter and the protests surrounding the movement have become more than nightly news stories — they’re visceral, personal, and at their very core, impossible to ignore.
But while a majority of Black parents already talk about race to their children, for white parents of young kids, this newfound reality has forced them to reckon with a difficult subject: How do they do the same? A better question to ask, though, is, why are white parents only talking about race now? And what would a world look like where these discussions take place even after the protests leave our front doors?
The Expert Advice
Onnie Rogers, psychology professor at Northwestern University: Do kids see race? Can they distinguish different people that have skin colors? Yes, and they can do that from infancy. So, in some ways, kids come into the world capable of seeing and noticing differences. By the time kids are 18 months, they’ve already started to absorb our current notions of gender and started to perform those. So, by the time kids are three, they’re certainly picking up on status differences on the basis of race, and we’re able to have meaningful conversations about it.
We often say that kids are statisticians. They’re taking data in. And kids very early on pick up on, “Well, why are you treating this person that way?” “Why is that this way?” They’re making associations. That’s not the bad thing — the bad thing is to not provide them with true explanations of history and inequality and racism. Because kids are sponges, because they’re engaging in the world, the sooner we provide them with an alternative narrative to the stereotypes, the better. So, certainly, kids are paying attention to the spaces in which their existence is accepted and encouraged and the settings in which it’s shut down. As parents, as educators, it’s an ongoing, proactive process.
The one thing I often tell parents who say, “I don’t feel qualified,” or, “I don’t think I know enough to answer these questions, I need an expert” — yes, there’s an important education component. We need to know history. We need to know the truth about inequality. But more than anything, we need to tap into our own sense of humanity and empathy and be honest with our kids. The more we can give them to help them maintain what they already know about equality, justice and fairness, the better prepared they are when they encounter the racism they inevitably will face in society. So if you don’t know the answer, say you don’t know and then go find out. Just be genuine with your kids. Kids are forgiving, so they will make space for that.
Ethan Campbell and Alice Yu, protesters and parents of two young kids:
Ethan: We have one girl, Maddie (6) and one boy, Jonah (10). Alice (my wife) is Chinese American, so our first discussions with them about race from an early age were about their own identities and their Chinese heritage. We’ve been increasingly concerned about it as incidents of anti-Chinese racism have risen in response to the coronavirus, though of course we haven’t left the apartment often since March.
The first thing our son said as we were getting ready to attend the Breonna Taylor vigil was, “I’m worried that the police will shoot pepper spray at us,” which might give you an idea of how young kids are perceiving the cops these days. When we look over the crowds, I like to point out signs like, “Imagine What Isn’t Being Filmed,” or a chart showing the police budget relative to health care and education, and ask if he understands what they mean. In general, I told them both to pay close attention to everything, since this is an important moment in history and they will want to remember it years from now.
The good thing for parents talking about race and racism with their kids is that they don’t have to do it alone. The elementary school our kids attend makes a point of teaching about racism and civil rights, reading books about it and doing class activities like reenacting Rosa Parks’ ride on the bus in Montgomery. This past fall, my son’s fourth grade class read the novel Holes, and I read it along with him. And last weekend, we all watched the CNN Sesame Street special on racism, which was really well done.
Alice: At this point, their understanding is surface level. They understand that people are protesting against racism and that police are treating Black people unfairly, but the deeper understanding of what this means will hopefully develop as they mature, as we have more conversations, and through their own experience.
Jacqueline Douge, pediatrician and family blogger: Do it in an age-appropriate way. Meet your kids where they are and also engage in questions. I love books, and I think they’re an extremely helpful medium. Don’t shy away from the topic. Our kids are already much more aware of situations than we give them credit for, either through observations of parents’ reactions to certain situations or hearing it from friends or other family members. More than anything, it’s important for parents to talk about the impact of racism. Not just having it in conversation, but also modeling the way for them to make some positive changes.
Race is at the root of all of our societal issues. Our country was set up on the premise of determining racial groups to set priorities and to set privilege. If we talk about race and acknowledge it, especially for communities of color, it affirms them. As people of color, especially Black people in the U.S., it sort of grounds the conversation and gives you an opportunity to then create this tapestry that provides cultural context.
For kids, it’s important to show that we have triumphed, that there are hard-fought battles that have been won: “This is who you are. This is how you identify.” And it grounds kids, if they understand who they are and how people perceive them, but that they can also make a difference, and be themselves as well.
Each family is going to have their unique discussions about their cultural identities, their racial identities. It does change by age, right? Because you’re going to talk differently to a three-year-old than you are a teenager, there’s abstract versus concrete thinking. But across the board, there’s a commonality in the conversation for each racial group, however you identify, because all parents want their kids to be compassionate, kind and fair. And in doing that, it sets the groundwork that even though other people look different, we’re all similar.
Jemar Tisby, historian, PHD candidate and author of The Color of Compromise: Parents always have to navigate this tension, especially parents of Black children, of wanting them to have time to be kids and be innocent, and not have to worry about how other people are perceiving them and not develop this idea that, “My body is a problem for people.” At the same time, you don’t want them to be caught off guard, especially in a dangerous situation. And raising a young Black boy, data shows us that in two to three years, he’s going to be perceived as several years older than he is, and therefore, perceived as a greater threat. You wanna prepare your kids for that reality.
We navigate that, but we tend to err on the side of more information than less. One of the things we’re careful about, we don’t show him any images, any graphic images. As he gets older, he’ll probably run across it in his schooling, but we’re very careful about it. I also did a short video with The Atlantic about how to talk to kids about race.
Most of our conversations are on-the-go. We’re eating, we’re in the car. But when we stop and make everything still and say something, for him it comes across as more important, because whatever the context of that moment, we’re making space for it. That’s sort of a social cue, a conversation cue, that what I’m about to say is important. You may not understand all of it, but daddy really means it.
I’m also a PHD candidate at the University of Mississippi and I’m a teaching assistant in freshman history courses with 18- and 19-year-olds, and I can tell you with great certainty that a lot of parents are not having these conversations, or at least they’re not having them well. And these are teenagers. People always wanna say that these racial problems are generational: “Let the older people die off and this younger generation is gonna have this fresh new perspective to race.” No. Bad ideas about race get passed down way more often than good ones.
It’s a big responsibility for white parents to proactively educate their children, which is going to require white parents to proactively educate themselves. It really just struck me that the movie, The Help, was number #1 on streaming platforms. That shows a very shallow understanding about race. And so, until this generation of parents who are raising kids that are still at home get a lot more savvy about discussing race, we’re gonna have a lot of deconstructing to do.
Jennifer Keitt, behavioral consultant and author of Strong KidsMy kids grew up in a very pro-Black home. And I’m saying these words very carefully because I wanted to ensure that they all knew they were beautiful, they were loved, they were esteemed. So we always had conversations about who they were, what they are and what that means, especially in conversations when they got older.
I’ve been doing a lot of specific research about the toxic stress associated with racism, how that’s internalized, and then how it’s experienced by our children. There is a lot that we can’t shield them from, so I believe that parents need to be uber in tune with what they’re feeling, and why they’re feeling what they’re feeling. The research clearly says that great parents parent themselves first, have an understanding of their mental condition first, before they begin to help their children become self-aware.
Emotional intelligence centers on four key concepts. First, I’ve gotta be aware: Aware that I’m feeling something. I think for many white Americans, especially in this go-around, they realize they are feeling something. Then I’ve got to name appropriately what I’m feeling, have a vocabulary. The third step is really being able to express my emotions appropriately. Laughing, crying, walking, protesting, creating policy, creating change to get to that place where I can express what I’m feeling in a way that validates my feeling but that’s an appropriate addition to the discourse. Then, and only then, am I able to manage my emotions effectively. That four-tiered process needs to be taught immediately: What are you thinking? What are you feeling? How do those two connect? And what can we do to express ourselves in an appropriate way?
Louise Derman-Sparks, life-long activist and anti-bias educator: I got started in the 1980s specifically around doing anti-bias work, but it was really because of my adopted son, who is of mixed race parentage. I’d also say that by the time my son was 10 or 11, he absolutely needed “the talk.” The message we were trying to give him was that he had to be careful around police, that some people in this country didn’t like African Americans, that it wasn’t his fault and that there were people, like us, who were trying to change it. Which is kind of ironic, since we’re still talking 40 years later.
The starting place is that parents have to really listen to their kids and try to be honest while also paying attention to what age the child is. You don’t want to scare the kids too much, but you also want to tell them the truth. And depending on where you live and who you are, telling the truth may not be fun. Often, the truth is hard. It’s painful. But you can’t tell young children of color that the police are their friends.
Silence is the worst thing that white parents can do, especially if they think that racism is wrong. Your children are picking up on what’s happening from a very early age. But if you leave children alone to face all these issues, they create their own theories and confusions and fears.
Parents don’t have to have all the answers either. They just have to role model caring about this, acknowledging it, facing it and learning about racism. The last piece is that we must also teach our kids about the movements of social justice, and let them know that there were white people who have participated and are still participating. That’s what was important to me: That when I taught about the white role in racism, I also pointed out that there are people who spent their entire lives fighting to change this, so kids don’t feel immobilized by it. For me, you have a responsibility to change what’s going on in the world. So as an 80-year-old activist, it’s been remarkable to watch this. | <urn:uuid:537dd5b1-e619-4cc5-8a88-2c4b3a1060a1> | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/content/story/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-race | en | 0.974321 | 0.026676 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Lifelong Learning
· January 11, 2019
As the job market changes, one way people can maintain or grow their incomes is by pivoting to more in-demands fields. For all the automation and expansion, relatively few people are unemployed (joblessness is a somewhat different boat), and most industries are unable to hire all the people they would like due to lack of appropriate candidates.
This isn’t just true of highly paid workers either - there are pressures across wage scales. Some of this is geographic: the right kind of people are available, but not where the company that would hire them is located. This can be made worse by housing policy - the San Francisco Bay Area is a great example of a place where there are needs for people, but while wages are increased they are not increased sufficiently to account for the high price of housing. Some flexibility is limited by industry-specific experience: hiring managers tend to look for people with specific experience in their industry, which will limit the pool even if otherwise credible candidates are available.
Much of the unfilled need is skill-specific though: the requirements are specified in capabilities, not specific industry knowledge. This is much more amenable to training. In some cases the market had come up with offerings - there is sufficient demand and compensation for software development that many for-profit bootcamps (short term training courses) and online courses have developed. They appear to be reasonable effective in both helping people get jobs in that field, and also succeeding in those jobs. This takes some time though - modern software development has been an in-demand career for about 20 years (even incorporating the .com recession) but the environment for these types of new training both required technical developments and attitudinal shifts that occurred as developers moved up to be hiring managers and executives.
As more people have shorter stints in given occupations, such retraining may become a more common event. The Aspen Institute (and others) propose Lifelong Learning Accounts, which would be paid in to by employers and cover retraining during unemployed phases. Along similar lines, the Obama administration pushed for a program that covered dislocated employees, when trade deals results in job loss. It would cover some retraining costs, as well as other social benefits.
I mildly dislike the term “lifelong learning”, as it implies without a formal training or education people aren’t learning. That is both strictly not true, but also negates a significant amount of firm-specific skill development, and to be honest the kind of industry knowledge that employers seem to value. A lot of this is practical, hard to communicate knowledge about how to get things done, what events within the industry look like and so on. Of course, its value is totally dependent on the continuation of conditions in that specific firm or industry.
In some ways, more traditional education (employer training, universities) give a better leg up in these ares: a good chunk of value of an MBA is the network of fellow students, which somewhat mimics the effect of working in a firm - you are exposed to varying ideas and approaches. Similarly, apprenticeships have a clear line to effectiveness, but by being so focused on a specific job as-it-exists they make new graduates just as vulnerable to dislocations due to trade or automation as long-time workers.
What I don’t disagree with is that there will be an increase in the mix of both formal and informal education and training throughout the careers of most people. Examples like the Khan Academy are interesting for describing genuine new approaches - Khan Academy content effectively supplements, rather than replaces, traditional teenage education, and can be used in varying structures which rely more, or less, on the online content. Most of the other MooC providers hew too closely to recreating a university-like environment without moving beyond the lecture+exercise, and significant time investment, model. In part this is driven by the need for equivalent credentials, which is separate failure, and discussion (c.f. Brian Caplan).
Still, given the high volume of content available already, the problem of matching individuals and training together seems pretty significant. For university-level education most countries have developed fairly robust ways of matching people to institutions, and there is still a fair amount of reallocation after students have their first experiences. Adults have to make a similar analysis with much less support, many more choices, higher costs, and more decision factors. Its interesting to see emerging tools here - for example HN Academy collects and ranks computer science courses based on their popularity in the Hacker News community. | <urn:uuid:4b6b47a5-08c5-4ac5-bf20-95535dbe509c> | https://www.gunfist.com/futureofwork/2019/01/11/lifelong_learning/ | en | 0.966005 | 0.169225 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
(Pocket-lint) - Jawbone has launched new music service called Drop, or actually, it is an app that's integrated with music services.
Drop lets you play music from Spotify and Rdio. The unique part about this app however is that it pulls in song requests through Twitter. Let's say you're at a party, for instance, friends can create and manage playlists by sending (or "dropping") tweets to a specific username.
"Whether you're hosting a party or listening solo, Drop by Jawbone plays the right music for you with just one touch," explained Jawbone via the app's description. "Friends can seamlessly add new tracks to the mix by sending you a tweet with the name of the song they want to play."
Your friends must mention you in the tweet, with the word "drop" and the name of a song or artist. They don't need to download the app, but the person playing music needs to download Drop, essentially making that person a DJ of sorts.
Announced at Twitter’s Flight developer conference, Drop’s website is now live and includes a download link for the iOS app. Jawbone said songs are pulled from Spotify or Rdio, so you'll need a premium or paid subscription to either of those music services in order to use Drop.
There's no word yet on whether an Android version is coming.
READ: Jawbone's Up app will launch for rival wearables later this month
Writing by Elyse Betters. | <urn:uuid:a6da56f5-539f-49ea-bddb-68fe67a38968> | https://www.pocket-lint.com/fitness-trackers/news/131468-jawbone-s-drop-is-a-new-music-app-for-group-curated-playlists | en | 0.961121 | 0.452262 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Ketosis vs. Ketoacidosis: Benefits and Side Effects
Ketosis vs. Ketoacidosis Benefits and Side Effects
The ketogenic (keto) diet is rapidly growing in popularity within the medical community and among fitness enthusiasts, largely due to the compelling body of clinical evidence backing its health benefits. Thus far, research suggests that the keto diet may help[1]:
• Enhance cognitive processes (focus, memory, etc.)
• Reduce inflammation
• Improve cardiovascular function
• Support healthy blood sugar balance
• Assist weight loss
• Promote longevity
You’re likely aware that the keto diet is a very-low-carbohydrate nutritional regimen, but there is quite a bit more to it than that. For example, you may keep hearing the term “ketosis” when people talk about their newfound love for the keto diet.
This begs the question: What the heck is ketosis? What about ketoacidosis? Are there benefits of ketosis? If so, how do you get into ketosis?
This article will help you get a clearer sense of what ketosis is, how it works physiologically, which dietary supplements can help you get into ketosis, and the multitude of benefits ketosis can have. (You will also learn how to differentiate between ketosis and ketoacidosis.)
What Is Ketosis?
Ketosis is a metabolic condition that occurs naturally when your body is deprived of sugar (carbohydrates) and during times of extensive fasting or starvation.[2]
On the keto diet, the goal is to force your body into “dietary ketosis” by significantly reducing carbohydrate intake (especially starchy carbs and simple sugars).
This might seem unhealthy at first glance, as we are more or less raised to believe that carbohydrates/sugars are a necessary macronutrient for wellness and longevity. In reality, your body does not actually need sugar/carbs in the diet, as it can make glucose and energy from other substrates (such as amino acids and glycerol).
Thus, by limiting carb intake, your body starts to rely heavily on fats for energy. As you become “fat-adapted” and fat metabolism increases, the liver starts to produce distinct molecules known as ketone bodies (often referred to as simply “ketones”).
As these ketones build up in the body and you keep carbohydrate intake to a minimum, you enter the metabolic state of ketosis – the point at which the magic starts to happen, so to speak. (We will go more in-depth on the benefits of ketosis later.)
Ketosis vs. Ketoacidosis
It’s important to make the distinction between dietary ketosis and ketoacidosis. The ketosis you experience on the keto diet is a healthy state to be in and beneficial in many ways.[1]
Ketosis ultimately just means you have a higher amount of ketones in your blood than usual; the amount of ketones your body produces while on the keto diet is not significant enough to cause acidosis (i.e. blood pH less than 7.35).
Ketoacidosis, on the other hand, is not the same as dietary ketosis. Ketoacidosis is a potentially lethal metabolic abnormality caused by having an excessive amount of ketones in the blood (which significantly lowers blood pH and makes the body highly acidic).[3]
The pH of your blood is normally right around 7.4, and it’s strictly regulated to keep it close to that number since many biochemical processes rely on fairly neutral (or basic) conditions. Thus, when the blood is acidic many routine cellular reactions are disrupted (which can lead to a myriad of health ramifications or even death).
Ketoacidosis is most likely to occur in individuals with type-1 diabetes, generally if they don’t have sufficient insulin present in their body. This is a condition known as diabetic ketoacidosis and usually requires immediate medical attention.
If you are in fact a type-1 or type-2 diabetic, you should not make any drastic dietary changes or start the keto diet without first consulting with a licensed physician.
Symptoms of ketoacidosis generally include:
• Extreme thirst (feeling very dehydrated)
• Frequent urination
• Fruity-smelling breath
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Lethargy
• Shortness of breath
• Stupor
Coincidentally, these are some of the initial symptoms people experience when they switch to the keto diet – a phenomenon known as the “keto flu.” However, the symptoms of ketoacidosis are much more acute and debilitating than what you would ever experience from dietary ketosis.
Again, dietary ketosis is safe and simply denotes that you have an above-average amount of ketones in the body, which imparts a variety of benefits.
What Are Ketones?
Chemically, the term ‘ketone’ refers to a broad class of organic compounds with a central carbon atom bonded to oxygen and two carbon-containing groups. The ketones your body produces from fatty acid metabolism are more properly referred to as “ketone bodies” since many other ketones exist in nature.
The three major ketone bodies responsible for ketosis are acetone, acetoacetic acid, and beta-hydroxybutyric acid (BHB). See below for their chemical structures:
Despite BHB not being a ketone (in the technical sense), it functions like one in your body – just like acetone and acetoacetate. In fact, BHB is arguably the most beneficial ketone body in humans, especially for performance enhancement.[4]
This is why Keto1 includes trademarked goBHB exogenous ketones – the purest form of BHB salts on the market.
What are exogenous ketones, you ask? Exogenous ketones are simply ketone bodies that originate from a source outside of the human body. Contrast that with endogenous ketones which are made within the body.
However, the exogenous ketones in Keto1 are bioidentical and work exactly the same in your body as the ketones you naturally produce.
Does Your Body Really Need Carbs?
Most people assume that sugar and carbohydrates are the ideal form of energy for their body, which is not really the case. In fact, many physicians and nutritional scientists would argue that fat is the superior form of energy for your body.[5]
One could even make the argument that the advent of processed, sugar-laden foods is one of the main reasons obesity is so prevalent these day (and research agrees with this).[6] Physiologically speaking, that seems to make the most sense.
Carbohydrates, especially simple sugars, have the strongest effect on insulin secretion.
Eating too many carbs and simple sugars over time can cause the body to become resistant to the effects of insulin, thereby leading to chronically elevated blood glucose and insulin levels.
Eventually, this can manifest into full-on type-2 diabetes, which is well-known to contribute to obesity (and vice versa) as well as many other health complications.[7]
It’s really no surprise then that research shows the keto diet can help reverse type-2 diabetes and enhance insulin sensitivity.[8] In many ways, the keto diet is the inverse of what most people eat like (e.g. more fat and protein instead of sugary foods).
How Dietary Ketosis Works
By cutting out carbs, your body will not have its “usual” source of glucose for producing energy (ATP). Obviously, your body needs energy for you to function, and it’s smart enough to make things work even without sugar in the diet.
Once carbs have been essentially removed from the diet, your body switches gears and starts to break down fats (from adipose tissue and food) so that they can be oxidized for energy. As part of this process, ketones are made (hence the term “ketogenic” diet).
How to Tell if You’re in Ketosis
After about 1-2 weeks of following the keto diet, your ketone levels will rise sufficiently enough for you to be in a moderate ketosis (which is about 1.0-1.5 mmol/L of blood ketones). You don’t need to be too worried about actually measuring your ketone values, but if curiosity gets the best of you, then you’re best option is to invest in a blood ketone analyzer.
You can find them at many pharmacies and online health stores these days. They work just like a blood glucose meter, a simple finger prick is all that’s needed and it will tell you how many ketones are in your blood.
Here’s a chart to give you an idea of blood ketone values and what they mean:
Blood Ketone Levels <0.6 mmol/L 0.6-0.9 mmol/L 1.0–1.5 mmol/L 1.6–3.0 mmol/L >3 mmol/L
What the Values Mean Low (normal) ketone levels Onset of ketosis Moderate level (sustained ketosis) High level,
may be at risk for ketoacidosis
Ketoacidosis (seek medical attention immediately)
Health Benefits of Nutritional Ketosis
Earlier we alluded to the health benefits of ketosis. The subsections below will dive into what the current scientific and clinical findings demonstrate about ketosis and its impact on human health and longevity.
Dietary Ketosis for Weight Loss
Arguably the most promising aspect of the keto diet is its role in weight (fat) loss. There appear to be two primary mechanisms that ketosis works through to help manage body weight:
• Ketosis increases fat metabolism (breakdown: When your body is in dietary ketosis, you’re essentially “fat-adapted,” meaning your body is trained to breakdown fats as its primary source of fuel. The fats your body breaks down in ketosis come from both stored adipose tissue (body fat) and dietary fats, which in turn can help support weight loss (assuming calorie intake less than energy expenditure).[1]
• Ketosis encourages healthy appetite regulation. A recent meta-analysis suggests that ketosis helps suppress appetite.[9] It is not quite clear what causes this, but the current theory is that ketones increase a satiety signal called cholecystokinin and reduce ghrelin – a hunger signal secreted in the gut. Hence, ketosis makes it easier for many people control their calorie intake without feeling like they are “depriving” themselves.
Contrarily, eating a higher-carb diet may lead to erratic blood sugar swings which can impact food cravings (especially the desire to eat sugar).
Ketosis for Cognitive Function
When you adapt to the keto diet, your brain begins to thrive on fatty acids and ketones for energy. (On a higher-carb diet, your brain utilizes primarily glucose.) Research demonstrates that your brain has a propensity to produce more brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) when carb intake is nominal; BDNF is a unique peptide in the brain that enhances neuron (nerve cell) function, mental clarity, and cognitive processes.[10] [11]
Furthermore, neurons in the brain start to lose their integrity and function as we grow older. If these neurons degenerate significantly, then conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease can occur.
The keto diet has become an intervention of increasing interest in the field of neuroscience, mainly because evidence suggests that ketosis may delay the onset of neurodegenerative processes and reduce inflammation throughout the brain.[12]
In layman’s terms: Ketones and fats are great for your brain.
Ketosis for Physical Performance
Many athletes and gym goers fear that ketosis will hinder their performance and training since conventional wisdom suggests you need to “carb up” before exercising. This is why many endurance athletes will often eat a big pasta dinner the night before a competition.
Now that more research is coming out on the performance-enhancing aspects of ketosis, it’s very likely we will see a sort of paradigm shift in the way athletes and fitness enthusiasts eat (especially how they fuel their body before a big game or workout).
Ketosis turns your body into a fat-burning machine (rather than a sugar-burning machine), and fat is a great source of lasting energy, especially for endurance athletes.[14] >Moreover, ketones have unique performance-enhancing benefits as well, particularly by inhibiting muscle protein breakdown (which is favorable for retaining lean body mass).[4]
Ketosis for Longevity & Wellness
Promotes Healthy Blood Glucose Balance
Several studies demonstrate that ketosis supports healthy insulin levels and metabolism. [14] [15] Moreover, being in ketosis help maintain stable energy levels and a balance in blood glucose values throughout the day.
Typical Western diets contain a large number of refined carbohydrates, which often results in blood sugar swings and resistance to the effects of insulin. Contrarily, ketosis actually enhances the effects of insulin and helps stabilize blood sugar values. This means your body becomes better at partitioning nutrients to favorable tissues, such as skeletal muscle, and you’re less likely to suffer from energy crashes.
Healthier Cardiovascular Function
Clinical findings demonstrate that ketosis may promote better blood lipid balance and lower the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) over time.[16] In fact, subjects who followed the keto diet for six weeks had a 33% reduction in fasting triglyceride values compared to subjects who consumed a higher-carb diet.[17]
Anti-Inflammatory Benefits
Clinical evidence suggests that oxidative stress and inflammatory biomarkers are reduced in those who follow the keto diet versus a higher-carb diet.[18] It is postulated that this is due to decreased inflammasome activity while following the keto diet. (Inflammasomes are a class of proteins that induce inflammatory response).
Exercise for Ketosis
Carbohydrates only go so far to sustain energy throughout the day, especially when you workout. When you follow the keto diet, your body relies on fats and ketones as fuel instead of glucose, which means you have plenty of long-term energy to propel physical activities.[19]
While exercise is not necessarily required for ketosis, research shows that maintaining diligent daily physical activity can enhance production of ketones on a low-carbohydrate diet (not to mention the innumerable other benefits of keeping active).[20]
Depending on your current lifestyle and activity level, most people stand to benefit from at least three 30-minute workouts per week. These should be moderate- to high-intensity forms of exercise, such as resistance training, CrossFit, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), etc.
As always, do what you are capable of and don’t push too hard. It takes time to condition your body and adjust to more challenging forms of exercise.
Supplements for Ketosis
Exogenous Ketones (Keto1)
Exogenous ketones supplements like Keto1 provide beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), generally in salt forms. By taking exogenous ketones, you effectively increase ketone body values in your body (with research suggesting about 12 grams of BHB salts being effective for ketosis).[21]> Exogenous ketones are a great supplement for those who want to enhance ketosis throughout the day, as well as those looking to expedite their transition to becoming “fat-adapted” on the keto diet.
MCTs (Keto Assist+)
Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are digested differently from long-chain fatty acids and provide an rapidly absorbed source of lasting energy. Research suggests that MCTs can help enhance mitochondrial function and promote mental acuity.[22] Many keto advocates will use a “keto coffee creamer,” like Keto Assist +, which includes MCTs and healthy fats to support ketosis throughout the day.
Key Take-Home Points about Ketosis
• Dietary ketosis is a natural metabolic condition in which the body (primarily the liver) produces an above-average amount of ketones, usually as part of fat metabolism
• Ketoacidosis is when the blood becomes highly acidic due to an excess of ketones; this is quite uncommon and generally only occurs in type-1 diabetics who don’t have enough insulin in their body (diabetic ketoacidosis).
• Your body naturally produces three ketone bodies as part of ketosis: acetate, acetoacetate, and beta-hydroxybutyrate.
• You must keep your carb intake to roughly 30 grams or less per day to get into ketosis. To achieve this, your best bet is to focus on foods that are high in healthy fats and quality protein, such as eggs, meat, fish, almonds, MCT oil, coconut, fibrous vegetables, and grass-fed butter.
• The best supplements for supporting ketosis are exogenous ketones and MCTs. You can find these in Keto1 and Keto Assist+.
• Being in ketosis has a has a range of health benefits, such as improved mental acuity, enhanced athletic performance, support for weight loss, healthier appetite regulation, more stable energy levels, and reduced inflammation.
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18 May 2009
ALI's Proposed Principles of the Law of Software Contracts Set for Final Release
Founded in 1923, the American Law Institute (ALI) consists of “judges, practicing lawyers, and legal scholars from all areas of the United States as well as some foreign countries, selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in the improvement of the law” who are tasked with publishing “various Restatements of the Law, model codes, and legal studies to promote the clarification and simplification of the law.”
Several years ago, the ALI, in partnership with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform (US) State Laws (NCCUSL), had promulgated Article 2B, the so-called "Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act", or UCITA, as a new component to the US states' Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The UCC is a long-standing body of laws of commerce that has been adopted by nearly every state in the United States. UCITA did not fare as well as the larger set of laws embodied in the UCC, however; rather, only two states, Virginia and Maryland, adopted it. UCITA fell victim to controversies engendered by the attempt to codify rules that critics contended unfairly favored the interests of software companies over those of consumers. NCCUSL abandoned UCITA in 2003.
Since 2004, the ALI has been in the process of issuing a more modest set of guidelines applicable to software contracts, known as the Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. The intention is to secure broad consensus on a set of uniform principles, which could then, at some point in the future, evolve into a default set of licensing rules. The principles deal with issues such as enforceability of click-wrap or on-line agreements, forum selection, mandatory arbitration clauses, and embedded software.
On May 19, 2009, it is anticipated that the ALI will give final approval to these principles, barring any late proposals to postpone their adoption. A number of provisions will prove controversial among software companies. This article highlights a few of the more prominent features of the principles.
Implied Warranty of No Hidden Defects
Software developers often release software despite a long list of known defects, based on the assumption that the defects are not likely to materialize or prove fatal, with the intention to correct such errors in the next release. The principles' newly articulated implied warranty of no hidden defects may radically alter the way software is marketed and sold.
The principles require the software licensor to “warrant to any party in the normal chain of distribution that the software contains no material hidden defects” of which the licensor “was aware at the time” of the license or transfer of software. Unlike other implied warranties, such as the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability, this new implied warranty cannot be excluded in the operative license agreement. Any such purported exclusions or disclaimers of this warranty will not be enforceable.
A hidden defect is defined as an error that "would not surface upon any testing that was or should have been performed by the transferee." The principles fail to provide any meaningful guidance on the severity of defect required to rise to the level of "material", other than state that such an error is one that renders the software "not fit for its ordinary purpose." Would a bug that renders the use of the software inconvenient but does not otherwise preclude the use of the software fall into this category? What of errors that render the software inordinately consumptive of memory or processing power? The principles are silent on this rather significant threshold issue.
The only way to avoid liability under this warranty is to either prove lack of knowledge, or fully disclose all known defects at the time of the license and beyond. In short, software vendors will be forced to produce a known defects list to its customers upon first license and constantly thereafter. The principles state that such disclosure should be done directly to the customer, and that a "mere posting of defects" on a website is "generally insufficient".
Software vendors will now need to seriously consider not only the most effective and diplomatic method of disclosing known defects to their customers, but also pursuing a list of known defects from each of their upstream suppliers, in order to be in a position to make the same disclosure downstream. This new implied warranty applies for the benefit of "any party in the normal chain of distribution", thus removing as defense lack of contractual privity.
Implied Indemnification Obligation
The principles advance a new implied indemnification obligation against intellectual property rights infringement for rights in existence at the initial time of the transfer or license of the software in question. The scope of the indemnity is limited to IP rights based on US state or federal law. The vendor "must pay those costs and damages incurred" by the licensee "that are specifically attributable to such claim" or those cost and damages agreed in settlement. If a court enjoins the licensee's use of the software, or rules that the software is infringing, the vendor is obligated to pay the customer's direct, indirect and consequential damages, and is further required to, at the vendor's election, replace or modify the software to render it non-infringing, or refund the fees paid for the use of the software (with a deduction for a reasonable allowance for the period of time the transferee used the software).
This implied obligation may be excluded in the operative license agreement only if the exclusion is in writing, is conspicuous, and "uses language that gives the transferee reasonable notice of the modification or notice that the transferor has no obligation to indemnify the transferee."
The comments to this section of the principles state that the commonly-used boilerplate, "THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS ….", would not suffice to satisfy this standard. The disclaimer must specifically reference the implied obligation of indemnification.
Effect on Open Source Licensing
Both the implied warrant of no hidden material defects, and the implied indemnification obligation, apply only in the situation in which the vendor receives monetary consideration in exchange for use of the software. Thus, open source software developers will not face liability under the principles. However, companies that aggregate, package and license open source components for a fee, for example, Red Hat, Montavista, Azingo, ACCESS, or the like, will not be exempt.
Conflicts with US Federal Law
The principles state that the term of a software license or transfer agreement is unenforceable if it (a) conflicts with a term of federal intellectual property law; (b) conflicts impermissibly with the purposes and policies of federal intellectual property law; or (c) would constitute federal intellectual property misuse in an infringement proceeding. Based on notions of federal intellectual property law preemption of contract terms, and caselaw regarding patent and copyright misuse, the principles provide illustrative examples of problematic provisions.
These examples include: contract terms that forbid reverse engineering; terms that prevent fair use under copyright law; restrictions on the dissemination of factual information; and enforcement of royalty or other obligations beyond the term of the intellectual property right in question.
The analysis, the principles suggest, may differ depending on whether the software is licensed under a mass-market click-accept agreement or under a arms-length negotiated agreement between two parties of relatively equal bargaining strength. Provisions restricting reverse engineering or fair use, for example, may be less likely to be enforced in the case of the former.
Interestingly, the commentary to this specific principle appears to call into question the enforceability of the GPL as interpreted to require that separate independently created works that merely link to or are integrated with GPL code be licensed reciprocally under GPL. This scrutiny comes in the form of a hypothetical:
Organization A licenses source code under standard terms that permit the licensee to modify and distribute the software provided that the licensee distributes its modifications under terms that replicate those in A’s standard form (including the term authorizing modifications provided they are distributed only with A’s terms). The term placing conditions on distribution of modifications is likely enforceable as long as those modifications are a derivative work of the original code. It is more troublesome if the modifications are independently developed and separable from the original code.
1 comment:
Unknown said...
Now, software developers will become serious while issuing warranty.
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Marketing, branding, and advertising come in all shapes, sizes, colors, styles, budgets and so on. SO….What makes a marketing message stick out through the clutter and into the conscious of the average person? Is it the fact that Spike Lee directed it? Is it because Tiger Woods is doing something amazing like juggling a golf-ball with his club? Is it because there are babies on it selling stocks? Is it because some pitchman is screaming at you at 11:30 at night about some grill named after a boxer? Is it because someone is showing cute puppies trapped in a shelter cage pleading for help? To be honest, no matter what the execution of the message, idea will always be the most important element of any great marketing message. Thus, it doesn’t matter if the message is delivered by Tiger Woods or your half deaf/half blind uncle Harold…Just as long as that big idea is there. Just think of all the crappy movies you’ve seen that cost 150 million to make? They may look cool. They may be full of hot movies stars. But they are still more boring than watching grass grow. Now, think about those wildly popular, funny, silly, and ridiculous You-Tube video that some person recorded with their cell-phone for about the cost of their monthly bill? One of these forms of entertainment had a great idea behind it. The other did not. Can you guess which is which?
In this day of marketing clutter, my job is to work with you to help THINK OF and EXECUTE A GREAT IDEA that is informative yet entertaining for the betterment of your business.
About the 2009 Reel
Title plates are a tribute to my grandfather whose boots I used as a model reference for the intro and outro scenes. I conceptualized, designed, modeled, textured, animated, and composited every scene in the reel. Most scenes are clips from various web-commercials all completed during 2009. This is the reason why some of the scenes look a little compressed. Special thanks to Ace Boone for contributing the music.
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Organizational Marriage
by Midnight Freemason Contributor
Bro. Aaron Gardner
1. I really hope my daughter will want to become involved in OES. I am still working on my second degree and hope to participate in OES one day if my daughter wants to join. "She is only 5" and already asks can she join "5the lodge" as she calls it. She shows interest I suppose because when I go to a meeting she asks me when she can come.
2. I hope she would like to as well.. However, you do know there are such programs for Daughter of Masons when they are younger. She maybe O.E.S isnt her place quite yet... prepare her for it though. She has sometime before she can actually get involved but I think the International Order of Job's Daughters or the International Order of Rainbow Girls maybe good for her when she reaches 11 years of age. One person to check out is another contributor here at MFM, her name is Judy Gordon. She is very active with Jobs Daughters. You may find her articles very informative toward Job's Daughters. Such as this one:
Thank you for your comment.
3. Thank you for taking the time to contribute this article. I feel if someone takes the time to contribute a part of there knowledge. It is important to acknowledge the time investment one has made
1. Thank you. I appreciate that you take the time to acknowledge that.
4. Gone are the days when daddy and brother walked out the door without telling anyone where they went, now we all know there are no secrets in freemasonry, except what every society does not want the outside worldn to know, namely how we recognise each other. this is the same in the whole world, wether we are in a golf club, or a "secret society". We all wish to hold certain things for ourselves, and this will hold till the end of time. If, our "society", makes us a better person, is that bad when we hold certain things back from the person on the street? Do not every person, be they male or female, "good or bad" have something they wish to keep for themselves?. Everybody must decide for themselves, but please do NOT follow the masses, Freethinking is encouriged in these times, and I beg YOU, keep an open mind.
1. Thank you Bro. Anderson. I will keep these remarks in mind. I do like to think I am rather open minded when it comes to things, hence why I stand by the "marriage" of these organizations. I am open minded but still hold true to the meaning of what our fraternity really is.
Now, I feel that you may have a misunderstanding in what Freemasonry and a "Secret Society" are. Freemasons have never been underground to the point of being considered a true secret society with the exception of Germany during WWII, and many Muslim countries today. Even before there was internet, and telephones "Mommy and Sissy" knew exactly where Daddy and brother were off to. They went to that big building with a Square and Compass on it. They met with the same gentlemen who came over for drinks and sandwiches and chitchatted. The same men who came over and helped daddy re-shingle the roof, and the same men daddy went off to help at any beckoning call.
If you feel that with your obligation to the Fraternity is to keep things from your family, perhaps you should take a look at it again. There are four things Freemasonry will always hold true and never get in the way of. You learn them in your first degree, it is reiterated in the second and the third.
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Photonics refers to the technology and science of controlling, detecting, and generating photons. The properties of photons and waves can be employed to cure diseases, solve crimes, and explore the world. For some time now, scientists and other researchers have been reading about light. The colours of the rainbow are part of the light wave that is referred to as the electromagnetic spectrum. Hence, photonics travel in different wavelengths of rays, such as infrared light, UV, and X-rays.
Here are more details about the science of photonics.
Photonics Research
Photonics involves the investigation of amplification, light modulation, detection, transmission, and emission. Based on research, light can easily travel through transparent media. For instance, plastic or glass fibre may be used to control how the light travels. Fabrication of structures is one of the advanced research subjects that are used by engineers to come up with optical properties. Some of the optical properties include metamaterials, crystal fibres, and photonic crystals.
Photonics in Modern and Classical Optics
The science of photonics is associated with electro-optics, quantum electronics, optomechanics, and quantum optics. However, every field has different connotations when it comes to government and scientific communities. For instance, quantum optics usually connotes the fundamental research, while photonics is employed to predict the applied development and research. Photonics specifically connotes:
• The analogy to the electronics
• Optics application
• Light properties
Moreover, classical optics preceded the innovation that wavelength of light is quantised. The tools of optics include the reflecting mirrors, refracting lens, and optical components. However, the critical beliefs of the classical optics, including wave equations and Huygens Principle don’t rely on the quantum characteristics of light.
Photonics in Other Emerging Fields
Photonics can also be associated with other science of quantum optics and quantum information. Other fields include the following:
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The photonics applications are ubiquitous. Some of these applications can be observed in fields, such as information processing, metrology, medicine, telecommunications, and spectroscopy, among others. Just the way other applications have dramatically expanded, the photonics applications are emerging continuously. Economically, the key applications for photonic devices or gears include optic telecommunications, data recording, and laser printing. However, the applications are unlimited, and you can use photonics in different fields, depending on your line of expertise.
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Trump’s phone calls, state visits and back channel diplomacy
President Trump’s style of communicating policy and interacting with world leaders has left many scratching their heads and having to quickly adjust in how to reach out to the new and unconventional President. These seem to involve various degrees of perceived importance.
The most important, it seems, are the early personal visits by invited foreign heads of state to the White House to assess where a country’s relationship is heading, renewing “special undying bonds” and alliances such as the UK’s Premier May. It could also end up being a diplomatic nightmare given the last minute unscripted style of the new US president, as Netanyahu found out during his joint press conference when he least expected to be told to “hold off for a little bit more” on the settlement drive in occupied Palestine.
However, if managed properly, such visits can also go very well as evidenced by the visit of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the White House. The pitfall of this mode of diplomacy is the issue of “the handshake” between the leaders: will it be long and vigorous (Japan’s Abe), deftly managed and equal (Canada’s Trudeau) or none at all (Germany’s Merkel)?
The second mode is the Trump telephone call to heads of state, with importance attached on which head of state he is dialling first in the queue. But again one is not sure if the dialled party has got what was hoped for from the call, given that a “great call” might soon be followed by off the cuff remarks that set relations back to nil, with Mexico and “the wall” being a good example.
The third is the use of his immediate and extended family, particularly his daughter Ivanka, his sons Eric and Don Jr, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, to carry out back channel diplomacy, something that has raised diplomatic eyebrows and frantic catch up by the traditional diplomatic careerist in Foggy Bottom, as the State Department is fondly called.
This particular mode of passing backhand messages seems to fit in well with a president who espouses the power of deal making and business relations in solving corporate and inter-state problems, and seems to be the favored mode for countries that are transactional oriented and want to get close to Trump like China, Russia and the Middle East.
Given the rich and varied menu in approaching President Trump, why should anyone be upset? It depends on the style and confidence level of foreign leaders. While some will fawn over the US President, others welcome a person-to-person visit to give them a chance to put, rather more forcefully, their opposing viewpoints, but it takes a few brave souls to do this and Germany’s Angela Merkel is one.
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Merkel’s argument
In her recent visit to the White House, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned US President Donald Trump that a proposed tax overhaul could spark retaliatory measures, including higher tariffs for American companies, and that the German government is reviewing its responses to a border-adjustment tax, which would only tax US corporations’ imports and not their exports.
Merkel argues that this violates World Trade Organization rules, unless President Trump does not care about this institution too, and adds it to those such as the Climate Change pacts. Again, unlike Teresa May and Benjamin Netanyahu who desperately sought US goodwill for their particular circumstances back home, a few countries have some leverage in their discussions.
Merkel riposte could include incrementally higher duties on imports from America and allowing German companies to make their US import tax deductible, thus compensating their competitive disadvantage, according to the report. Germany could also consider lowering corporate taxes and social contributions, making itself more attractive to international companies.
For Merkel, defending Germany’s export-based economic model is key as she seeks to boost her party’s poll numbers and win a fourth term in September, and playing tough with Trump might go down well and set her apart from others as a strong leader. The result, however, was the rather awkward and stiff poses of the two leaders following their meetings, with their body language saying it all.
The back door channel of reaching out is probably easier to explore, given that the second approach – the telephone call – reveals little public information on what was actually discussed, and often ends up having two different versions on what took place, with some items “sexed up” and others omitted or downplayed for the benefit of the respective domestic constituencies. However, sometimes a modest call is better than none and could end up being a “very good call”.
Call to China
Chinese officials were pleasantly surprised by President Donald Trump’s decision to reach out to President Xi Jinping with a personal call on February 9, a mere two weeks after failing to reach an agreement in a previously undisclosed back channel call on January 26 just before the start to the Chinese New Year.
In this first call, the two leaders mainly covered trade and economic cooperation, though they did briefly touch on sensitive geopolitics issues, including Taiwan, South and East China Sea tensions, and Sino-US security and military cooperation and exchanges. The two leaders also touched briefly on Iran, North Korea, and Syria, and stressed the need to work together on terrorism, but did not touch on any thorny human rights issues.
However, China won an important battle on 9 February with this telephone diplomacy as President Trump appeared to drop his threat to abandon Washington’s One China policy, which would have meant recognition of Taiwan, a red line for Beijing.
Awareness that personal relationships hold more gravity than policy positions has only made it more critical to get access, especially back channel. The priority for every ambassador in Washington and every visiting minister seems to be seeking an audience with either son-in-law Kushner, preferably daughter Ivanka, or Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist.
Some governments have sought to curry favor by doing business with the Trump organization. Following the disastrous president-to-president Mexico telephone call, the message has not been lost on the Mexicans to try the backhand channel.
The Mexican minister, Luis Videgarary, went straight to the unofficial and unelected center of power bypassing Foggy Bottom and the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and reached out to the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Videgaray, and Kushner knew each other in the business world, a hallmark of the Trump era, in which business networks have vied with national interests and the personal has become geopolitical.
Rest of the world
The rest of the world has been quick to learn. Not to be outdone, the Chinese embassy has played host to Kushner, Ivanka Trump and their children, celebrating the Chinese New Year, at a time when the Kushner family business was pursuing property dealings with a major Chinese corporation.
What followed was maybe coincidental, but China granted 38 new intellectual property name trademarks to the Trump organization paving the way in theory for the family business to enter – or stop others from entering – a wide array of businesses, from insurance to hotels, bodyguards, and personal services.
Intellectual property experts were struck by how smoothly the whole process went through the Chinese bureaucracy, and pointed to likely intervention from on high in the Communist party hierarchy. In a sign of the times, a company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, stands to receive more than $400 million from a prominent Chinese company Anbang that is investing in the Kushners’ $4 billion Manhattan office tower at 666 Fifth Ave.
Kushner has become something of a de facto envoy for the administration on China, and was present for a meeting between Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, and his father-in-law at the end of February. There are discussions under way between China and the US on a potential summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to take place as early as next month.
In the Middle East, the Trump family has been busy when on 17 February President Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr, were the guests of honour to the launch of the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai. It was the first opening of a Trump-branded property in the Gulf since the president’s inauguration, illuminating how much his business interests are thriving.
However, some have pointed out that there could be potential conflicts of interests that could open the US President up to foreign influence, since while he has given control of his global empire to his children, Trump has not divested his ownership, which means he will benefit from any commercial success of the golf resort.
The Dubai development was built by DAMAC Properties, which signed a multimillion-dollar branding and management contract with Trump’s company to operate the golf resort. For Russia, the personal approach seems to have backfired badly, at least for the time being, as every contact with the Trump camp and any evidence of financial entanglement has become a threat to the president’s legitimacy and his support among congressional Republicans.
Trump himself has been forced to backpedal from earlier suggestions he would lift sanctions, go soft on Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine and find common cause with Russia in Syria.
So which communication option will foreign heads of state opt for, given the short and long-term positive and negative impact of each? The response to date however, given the institutional and policy turmoil in Washington, has been one of confusion but expect the same for the next four years.
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KITCHENER -- Police swarmed a home in the Stanley Park neighbourhood on Thursday morning after reports of gunshots inside the residence, but investigators deemed there were no shots.
Now an investigation is underway into what led to the call in the first place.
It happened on Franklin Street North between Trafalgar and Shuh avenues just after 6 a.m. The police presence has since cleared, but earlier in the morning the area was filled with police asking people to stay away.
Officers and emergency response teams responded quickly, shutting down the area. It wasn't long before investigators determined there were no shots fired.
"The flashing lights through my bedroom window, so I got up and took a look naturally," remembered Krista Carter, who lives in the neighbourhood.
"Just lots of police, SUVs and then shortly after dogs, and some really big guns."
The call comes after a string of shootings throughout Waterloo Region this month, with the most recent on Monday.
In that case, a person went to hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Police said that two groups had been in two different vehicles and fighting before shots were fired.
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The Human Footprint
In 2008, National Geographic produces a documentary “The Human Footprint.” Every person leaves his/her footprint on the Earth. The products of his/her life sustenance influence on the Earth in many ways. However, people do not think about it, and they do not know how many products they use during their life. From my perspective, it is very interesting to learn all aspects of life, and their role in the world.
This movie is the story about all of us. We are very different, and we influence the planet in different ways. The scientists calculate the ordinary way of life in Great Britain. On an average, the life continues about 2,475,576,000 seconds from the cradle to grave. The main task from birth and during the life is to get enough calories because people need the permanent surge of energy. From the first hours, we can get it from the milk. During the life, one person drinks about 9,064 liters of milk. When children are young, the parents use nappies. They need about 3,800 nappies. Of course, it is very convenient for people. Although, nappies are very harmful to the environment. Plastic that is the main part of the nappies can decompose 500 years. That is why the child at the age under 2 years is responsible for carbon emission. Later, people need meat. Every person eats about 4 heads of cattle, 21 sheep, 15 pigs, 1,200 hens, and 13,345 eggs. The organism needs meat and eggs because they are the source of protein. In addition, the organism needs the energy of carbon-hydrate. That is why the bread is very important for people. About 4,283 loaves of bread the every person eats during his/her life. Of course, people need fruits and vegetables. Everybody eats about 5,272 apples and 10,860 carrots during the whole life. People used to live in the comfortable houses, work in the clean and bright offices, and buy products that are wrapped and clean. Every person throws about 8,500 kilos of food wrappers. Everybody likes chocolate. More than 10,000 bars of chocolate the person eats during his/her life. As a result, every person uses about 4,239 lavatory rolls during the life. The human body is a very efficient mechanism. During the life, every person eats more than 50,000 kilos and faeces weight about 2,865 kilos. The safety sewage disposals are the biggest human achievement. Without it, all towns could look like marshes from faeces. People take a bath or a shower every day. During the whole life, people use 1,000,000 liters of water. The human footprint on Earth is very evident. People cannot take anything with them after the death. All products of the life people will leave for the next generations.
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Mathis Wackernagel is the scientist who has written the book in1994. His aim was to develop the planning tool that would help to maintain environmental stability. In the chapter, that calls “The purpose of this calculation,” he explains the necessity of calculation of food, water and other goods. It will help to use all limited resources very wisely. They did research in Canada. That is why some rates are different. However, the general situation is the same as in Great Britain.
This movie is as a warning about the current situation in the world. From my perspective, the current situation is not hopeless, and I believe that people can change everything. The water resources of the Earth are very limited. There are about 6,500,000,000 people on the Earth. Some people have water for taking the bath or shower, for cooking, and drinking. However, other people do not have enough pure water to drink. People have to reduce their unnecessary use of water and other sources. Human activity is the core of global warming. People conduct themselves as owners. However, people are only servants. People have to change their attitude to the environment and nature. All disasters that have happened in the world are the warning for everybody. The Earth gives everybody the chance to use its resources and benefits cleverly. People have to do this because we must leave prosperous future for all living beings.
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Adam Schlesinger, 52 — He Had "All Kinds of Time"
The Coronavirus got singer-songwriter and Fountains of Wayne co-founder Adam Schlesinger on Wednesday. He was 52. That wasn't supposed to happen to someone so young. He had "All Kinds of Time". Though that FOW song from the album Welcome Interstate Managers is about a football quarterback standing in the pocket, it was the first song I played after learning Schlesinger had succumbed to the virus. it's a stop-action suspended animation song with an oddly downcast mood that fits the news.
As New York Times music journalist Ben Sisario points out in his Schlesinger obit, he and FOW co-founder Chris Collingwood derived their tuneful pop-rockery from the Kinks and from Big Star and the Cars. Paul Simon seeps through too, on songs like "Hey Julie" and "Valley Winter Song", but Schlesinger's overall musical vibe was his own brand of rootless suburban post teenage angst also expressed by Matthew Sweet and the under appreciated Canadian group The Odds.
While Ray Davies' milieu was "suburban" England, Schlesinger's was the New York/New Jersey metro area. "Fire Island" is about kids left alone while the parents summer on "Fire Island" (straight people go there too!). You can almost see the backyard where the song's protagonist oogled "Stacy's Mom", their best known but hardly their best song. The Montclair, New Jersey native placed a song of adolescent loser love in "Hackensack" (as of course did Monk and Billy Joel) and the 1999 album Utopia Parkway refers to a Queens, New York street that's hardly a parkway—in fact it's a pathetic misnomer that Schlesinger probably found both amusing and sad. How do I know that? When I was a kid I used to bicycle on it to Flushing to buy records. I also lived in Hackensack. When the character in that song sings about working in a Hackensack record store, I know the one. And of course when we bought a house with a pool we headed over to Fountains of Wayne, in Wayne, NJ. It was a real place, and Schlesinger's untimely death is a real damn shame.
Maybe those oblique connections are why his going so young got to me, but I think it's more of what you'll hear in "Prom Theme", which is another downcast look at what's supposed to be a teen years highlight but in Schlesinger's rear view mirror, really isn't.
And then there's the debut album's cover. At first it looks like the kid's wearing a Superman costume but not really. It's the best he could do. He's kind of "taking off" but not really, and he looks pretty miserable though he's trying his best to lift his spirits. I hear that in many of Schlesinger's songs. Maybe the song that gets me most right now, as we also deal with the deaths of Ellis Marsalis, Bucky Pizzarelli and Bill Withers—all in a short time period and not all from Coronavirus— is Adam's song of suburban disillusion, "A Fine Day for a Parade". Check it out.
MicallefK's picture
I loved the last album, Sky Full of Holes. So many great songs, including Road Song, Action Hero, Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart, The Summer Place. Pop songwriting mini masterpieces.
R Wade's picture
Adam was an underrated wordsmith with a tongue in cheek irony that was unique. Welcome Interstate Managers by FOW is an excellent album. Sonics not so good. Music very strong with memorable tunes that have stayed with me for years. Especially endearing were the lyrics to "Hackensack".
Dpoggenburg's picture
And let's not forget That Thing You Do!, which might be the song he's best known for, and nobody even knows who he is. And PLEASE seek out "Way Back Into Love" from the Music and Lyrics soundtrack -- big league song writing. RIP buddy.
HalSF's picture
A beautiful tribute to Adam and one of my most-loved songs.
He takes a step back
He's under attack
But he knows that no one can touch him now
He seems so at ease
A strange inner peace
Is all that he's feeling somehow
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It's so terribly sad to lose an artist of this caliber; for me, Welcome Interstate Managers is in constant rotation, Traffic & Weather too, to a lesser degree. Adam Schlesinger's inimitable love of language is the reason why we have these indescribably droll names on a band and on so many songs. Adam, we will miss you desperately and never forget you, how could we, you'll be performing for us until we join you, in spirit, at a rest stop, off the Turnpike.
Tom L's picture
...who wrote the ultimate FOW (sort of) tribute "Fountains of Wayne Hotline":
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My introduction to FOW - like so many other people - was Stacey's Mom. And Like a lot of other people, I quickly learned that they were so much more than that song. As I dug into the back catalog, I realized the genius of this band. For me "Traffic and Weather" is my favorite. What other band can work in a reference to Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons (NY reporters), and make it cool. I also, always loved their cover of "Can't Get it Out of My head" from "Out-Of-State-Plates". Great band, great songwriter. I am sad for what we will never get to hear from him.
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I caught onto FOW late and hav'nt played the albums in a while, so now's a good time to pull them out and enjoy the greatness that was Adam Schlesinger, RIP. | <urn:uuid:5395dacd-3075-4048-b434-bde19d250c6a> | https://www.analogplanet.com/comment/568009 | en | 0.973028 | 0.025816 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Friday, September 25, 2009
What makes a Portfolio Successful? Whether you are a Freelancer, Studio, or Agency... Does your Portfolio Qualify?
First off, lets make sure everyone is on the same page here and understands that your portfolio (be it freelance or for your company) is THE most important tool you have. Yes, its a tool. Its a way for clients to see what you can do. Its a way to convince them that you can complete the work that they desire. It helps get conversation started and it helps seal the deal.
Your portfolio starts conversations and opens doors when it gets passed to potential clients and they are impressed by your work. You want them to think "Shit, that is badass. We need something like that." Sorry for the foul language, but the client was impressed and couldn't help it. This type of reaction is what allows you to begin to network and develop business with potential clients that previously did not know you even existed.
On the flip side, the portfolio can seal the deal when the client comes to you with an idea but wants to be convinced that you can complete the work. This is where your portfolio needs to be filled with projects of quality and caliber that is similar to the ones you are going after. If the client is looking for an interactive game, you sure as hell better include some games in your body of work. Verbally saying, "Oh yeah, we can do that. We have a Flash guy." may work for the inexperienced, but it is not going to land you jobs with the big fish. You need to prove that you can do it and the best way to prove it is by having already completed similar projects before. You got to see it to believe it. This proof is one of the best ways to seal the deal with a potential client.
Now that we covered why we need a portfolio... how do we get clients to say "Shit that is badass" and prove to them that we can do the work they want? The most obvious thing you must include a collection of previous work. By definition, that is what a portfolio consists of. However, as obvious as this step is, it can still be fucked up. First off, don't include every piece you have ever completed... only include your most recent and your best. Each project should have a reason for being in your portfolio. Whether it shows that you can work on a national campaign, that you can do 3D, that you can make games, etc... Each piece should show a different side of your work. DO NOT INCLUDE EVERYTHING! If you don't want to do banner ads, don't include any banner ads in your work. If you don't want to do print design... don't show it! Fill your portfolio ONLY with the type of projects you enjoy doing and want to continue doing.
The next step in proving your skill set is including verbiage that describes what your role was on the project. This is important because you may not have worked on every aspect of a project and you need to be clear which parts were your own and which parts were done in collaboration. The goal here is to be very clear about what you specialize in and not leave clients wondering what your capabilities are.
So you have your focused body of work w/ detailed descriptions all ready to go. The final question, and one of the most important ones, is how do you display this information? You can get by with a clean and easy way for users to find your work and cycle through them. However, making your portfolio a piece of art in itself will take it to a whole new level. By making it a piece of art you are doing two things. First, and most importantly, you are giving yourself a chance to strut your stuff. This is your chance to flex your muscles with no client restrictions. Use this opportunity to prove to clients that you can do work that they may not see in your portfolio. If you want to prove that you can make a game but you don't have a full game in your portfolio... make your portfolio a game. That is what I did back in 2005 ( painful to see now, but you get the point). Second, by strutting your stuff you are increasing the chances that the potential client will think your portfolio is "badass" and therefore increase the chances they will reach out to you. No matter how polished your previous work is, if it is not presented in a quality manner then the client will be distracted by the presentation and think less of your overall work.
In summary, a successful portfolio is one that "wows" clients, proves to clients that you can do the work, and ultimately leads to more work for yourself and your organization.
Using this definition, does your site qualify as being successful? Does it show the type of work that you would like to continue doing? Is the site a portfolio piece itself, or does it just present your work? What does it do well? What could be improved?
For full disclosure... here is The Basement Design + Motion's most recent homepage and portfolio. The site showcases different design styles and disciplines (3D, Motion Graphics, Interactivity, etc). Every team member had their hand in the project at some point or another.
Do you think this site qualifies as being successful? What does it do well? What could be improved?
Mr.doob said...
Can't agree more.
Well, just a suggestion... it doesn't need to be a portfolio, it can also be a collection of ongoing experiments... ;)
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What to expect from US-North Korea talks; Norwegian prime minister on relationship with the US and tariffs. Aired 2-2:30p ET
Aired June 6, 2018 - 14:00 ET
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST, AMANPOUR: Tonight, as President Trump unravels the nuclear deal with Iran, he tries to make history by stitching
together a nuclear deal with North Korea. But what will happen if those talks fail. From Washington, the former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
Admiral Mike Mullen on the risk versus rewards.
Plus, Trump adversaries aren't the only ones trying to figure him out. Some of his closest allies hit by trade tariffs are trying to do that too,
and I speak to one of them. The Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg joins me here in London.
And we're beginning to see some of the blowback from President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran's supreme
ayatollah has just ordered the country to prepare more uranium enrichment just in case the deal collapses.
France's foreign minister is saying that Iran is sailing dangerously close to a red line, while Trump's key ally, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu is touring major European capitals to lobby against the deal.
While this hard-won arms control deal looks to be on its deathbed, the self-proclaimed dealmaker, Donald Trump, is trying to secure a new one.
With North Korea.
Less than a week before the meeting with Kim Jong-un, the former chairman of the joint chiefs says that if the Singapore Summit fails, the potential
for war could be even greater than it was before.
The retired Admiral Mike Mullen joins me now from Washington. Admiral Mullen, that's a very dire conclusion. What do you mean that after a sort
of a peacemaking summit, if that doesn't go well, the risk and the dangers could be even worse?
ADMIRAL MIKE MULLEN (RET.), FORMER CHAIRMAN, US JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: Well, Christiane, most of us - in fact, I think all of us sort of hope for
a diplomatic path to solve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, in particular with respect to nuclear weapons and nuclear ability.
And if that door that gets shut, albeit it could be temporary, but if that door gets shut, then the other paths that are open are certainly some
possibility of preventing the use or deterrence, if you will, maybe increased economic sanctions which would continue to shut down North Korea.
That would depend on China.
Or another possibility is that the use - the likelihood of the use of military capability goes up significantly.
So, I think the stakes have been very high from the beginning and they even get higher from that standpoint if the summit fails.
AMANPOUR: So, we're going to talk about what - well, let me ask you right now. What does failure mean? I mean, already, we're seeing the Trump
administration sort of back away from some of the pretty accurate demands they made of North Korea to show verifiable dismantling before even the
president should travel halfway around the world to agree that they would conduct complete denuclearization as the Trump administration demanded,
which was total dismantling and destruction of their nuclear capability. That's not what the Trump administration is talking about right now.
What do you think the best option or the best result from Singapore could be?
MULLEN: Well, it's really hard to know. Basically, Christiane, I've come to believe, with this administration, you're really not going to see what
happens or know what's going to happen until it happens. And I think that will be the case for this summit.
I would hope that we could reach a point where both sides are committed to the complete denuclearization.
I think if you listened to the Korean experts who've worked on this over decades that the agreement on the definition of denuclearization and the
timeline is probably the hardest thing to achieve.
So, I think going into this summit, if we could come away with a commitment to get on that road and some give on both sides that lead in that direction
that that could be a success, and that we should set our goals in a way that are meaningful in that regard and not too high at this particular
[14:05:15] Clearly, President Trump has had an impact on Kim Jong-un. He's coming to the table assuming the summit goes off as currently scheduled.
There will be discussions. He's had Korean leaders here in the US. So, it looks like it's going to happen.
It's just very difficult to know what comes out of it.
AMANPOUR: I'm so sorry to interrupt you. I just want to ask you. Do you think it's enough? I mean, you're a man of war, so to speak. You've been
in the navy all your career. You've been the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military official in the United States, through very
turbulent times.
So, one thing that's been mooted is that the president and the chairman could agree to - or the president could offer an agreement to have a peace
treaty. In other words, a formal peace treaty rather than the armistice that ended the Korean War.
Is that enough? And is it a risk that he comes away with just that with all the other stuff left on the table for the moment?
MULLEN: I think that in isolation - my own view is that wouldn't be enough because what I think we really need to be after the nuclear capability of
Kim Jong-un and that needs to be on the table in a very clear way.
Many people have spoken about how difficult any kind of agreement would be to verify because of the way the North Koreans have handled their weapons
historically and the way they've hidden them.
But the complete verifiable denuclearization aspect of this has to be on the table and there needs to be a road to get there and get there in some
reasonable period of time. Not in what has typically happened when dealing with Kim's father and his grandfather, which is putting the whole
definition of denuclearization out there to achieve it years, even decades later. I think that would be unacceptable.
AMANPOUR: Well, I mean, already, even from the US perspective, we're seeing report that Kim thinks it could take years and years and the United
States may be having to face the fact that it might take years and years.
So, I ask you that with the view to the fact that they already have nuclear weapons and they have intercontinental ballistic missiles that they've been
testing. US is very worried about that.
Iran doesn't have either of those things. And this deal looks like it might be unraveling. Do you believe the Iran Nuclear Deal is on its
deathbed and what would that mean for American and regional security?
MULLEN: Well, certainly, the trend is not in the right direction when the Supreme Leader says warm-up your nuclear manufacturing capability. My
expectations are certainly a whole lot closer to them starting it back up than we were.
We also shouldn't forget that the Iranians are very bright, capable people. And that, in this area in particular, when there were setbacks, they
regenerated that capability pretty quickly.
They were on the cusp, depending on how you look at it, several months from being able to develop this capability when the deal was struck. So, my
expectation is Iran could come back along those lines very rapidly.
And then, to have nuclear weapons developed in that part of the world, I think, would be a disaster. It would cause, from my perspective, other
countries to develop or buy the same capability, be it the Saudis, the Turks, the Egyptians, et cetera.
And having a nuclear arms race in the Middle East is exactly what we don't need at this particular point in time, just like we don't need one in the
Western Pacific if Kim Jong-un is able to keep his capability.
AMANPOUR: I want to go back to what you've said, in fact, about the risk of war. You've said about the president that casually threatening a
nuclear holocaust over Twitter suggested trouble if the meeting fails.
"I don't know if I can fully convey to you how shocking it is to hear the commander-in-chief talk about nuclear weapons with such nonchalance."
Well, that talk has receded for the moment, but are you saying that you're concerned that we may get back to that fire and fury code if this summit
doesn't go right?
MULLEN: I don't know - as I was alluding to earlier, I'm not sure what else is left at that particular point in time. And I don't think we've had
much of a discussion in our country about the potential use of nuclear weapons and how devastating they are, the most devastating horrific weapons
ever put on earth, and the numbers of people that these weapons will annihilate rapidly, the long-term effects that nuclear radiation creates.
[14:10:13] And we actually, in a way, almost have forgotten what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that we need to have that discussion in terms
of whether it's possible to get to a point where these weapons in any form could be used again, particularly with a leader like Kim Jong-un.
AMANPOUR: I want to ask you whether you believe, like many of the very, very experienced North Korean hands, the US officials who've had very
intense discussions with North Korean officials over many years, people like Siegfried Hecker, people like Joel S. Wit, those who are writing
about what the next moments could bring.
And the question is really, does Kim Jong-un really believe he's making a strategic historic shift? Does he want to do that? Is it in his interest?
So, let me just play this little snippet of that question put to Donald Trump.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you believe Kim is committed to denuclearization?
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Yes, I do think so. He'd like to see it happen. He wants to be careful. He wants to be - he's not
going to run and do things. But I told him to be honest with you.
Look, we have sanctions on. They're very powerful sanctions.
AMANPOUR: So, he's hedging his bets. He says, yes, I think Kim wants to, but we still have sanctions on. But, of course, the White House is no
longer using this maximum pressure language.
And the president seems to be indicating that he is stepping back from the robust demands he made for denuclearization at the start of this process.
How do you read what he just said?
MULLEN: Well, there could be something in this letter that he got that gives him an indication that they are much more serious about actually
denuclearizing than just anybody else expects.
I think, with Kim Jong-un, I wouldn't trust him. I don't trust him. And I would want to see his action, not his words, with respect to this. And
until that point, my expectation is he will keep the nuclear weapons card in his hands and on his side for absolutely as long as possible.
So, I think it's the most difficult part of the discussion. And it's what actually got him to the table. And for him to give that up would be very
surprising to me. And I think he'd have to give that up for something that he valued, obviously, as much, if not more, and I'm not sure what that
would be.
AMANPOUR: Well, he is going to get a really big prize and that is a major meeting with the leading leader in the world, the only superpower's
president will be meeting with this country who now will be de facto taken seriously as a nuclear power. So, that's one thing. I wonder how you
would respond to that at the beginning of a process rather than the end of a process.
And then, your military knowledge, what do you think happened when they blew up the tunnels at Punggye-ri, their nuclear site? Do you believe
there is evidence that they've destroyed that site or they've just collapsed the entrances?
MULLEN: Well, I'm actually - I haven't seen the intelligence. I don't see those briefs anymore. So, I'm not really sure.
There was fairly widespread speculation that that particular site wasn't functional anymore. So, I don't know if it's actually something he
actually gave up or if it's just symbolic at this particular point in time.
AMANPOUR: Well, again, you yourself have given credit to President Trump for taking this initiative and many people are very, very pleased that
there is this attempt at diplomacy over one of the most existential threats that we face in the world today.
But I just want to ask you because I think you were chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time. You remember when the North Koreans exported their
technology to Syria and they built a replica of their Yongbyon plant in Syria and the US was shown the intelligence.
The US decided not to bomb it. The Israelis did, as we now know. That was back in 2007.
And now, Assad is being invited back to North Korea. Are you worried a little bit about that connection?
MULLEN: Well, I guess, I'm not surprised at the connection. The North Koreans were building a plant for Assad several years ago. So, there's,
obviously, relationship.
In a way, Assad going there has me scratching my head. I don't think it's really substantive. It's more symbolic. He, obviously, hasn't traveled
many places, but I don't think, at this particular point in time, that it's anything more than that.
[14:15:05] And with all the players that are involved in this, from us to the North Koreans to the Chinese to the Russians to the Japanese, et
cetera, and the South Koreans, I think Assad is just a bit player.
AMANPOUR: Admiral Mike Mullen, thank you so much for your perspective. Thanks for joining us tonight.
Now, on the face of it, it does look like the Trump administration is more solicitous of this adversary as it prepares for this summit than of
America's closest allies. Take a listen to some of them.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: The idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the United States is quite frankly insulting
and unacceptable.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are friends and we are allies and we feel deeply offended by this.
AMANPOUR: So, they are all angry at being slapped upside the head with Trump tariffs on their metals.
And now, Mexico is retaliating by taxing American pork, cheese and Bourbon whiskey among other products. Canada and Europe are drawing up their list
of targets, desperately hoping that they can sting the administration without causing the crisis to spiral into an all-out trade war, as I heard
today from Norway's prime minister Erna Solberg.
Prime Minister Solberg, welcome to the program.
AMANPOUR: So, here you are in Europe at a time when things couldn't be more rocky between Europe and the United States.
SOLBERG: Yes, difficult times.
AMANPOUR: Well, how do you assess these trade tariffs that have been imposed on steel and aluminum?
SOLBERG: Well, using security measures from a country like Norway who is one of US closest allies, who we work very closely with, it's strange to us
to feel that we are now meeting higher tariffs based on -
AMANPOUR: National security.
SOLBERG: National security.
AMANPOUR: Yes, I think everybody, all the allies were stunned by that. And all have said the same as you that, hang on a second, we have been
allies, we fought alongside you for decades and decades.
But, I guess, I want to understand from you, you're one of the European leaders who has met with President Trump. You were at the White House a
few months ago. And if I'm not mistaken, he called Norway a great customer, a great ally and a great friend.
Were you surprised then first by the threats of the tariffs shortly after your visit and now by the actual imposition of them?
SOLBERG: We weren't surprised that something would happen because this is what he said in the election campaign. But, of course, we are surprised
that we have been met with that and that the European allies have been met with that.
Norway doesn't have a very big export to the US, so we don't - we are not hurt much by it. We know that higher tariffs, it's fewer jobs, less
welfare for all countries in the world.
AMANPOUR: Including the United States?
SOLBERG: Including the United States.
AMANPOUR: What do you make of analysts and people concerned, observers who are saying that, from the very beginning, European leaders kind of bent
over backwards to accommodate President Trump, to engage with President Trump and that that actually hasn't worked. He has actually rolled over
and carried out the threats that you didn't think he was going to do.
SOLBERG: Well, we are believers, I think in all European countries, of dialogue, critical discussion, finding compromise. Maybe we were a bit
hoping that not everything said, the way it was said, would be transformed into policies.
AMANPOUR: But in the 18 months that President Trump has been in office, he has actually broken a lot of deals that you all thought were good deals,
whether it is the Iran Nuclear Deal, now with these tariffs on trade, whether it's moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and many
other such things.
And some are beginning to say, well, is President Trump a partner with his allies or is he a competitor? And thus, do you have to figure out how to
respond in kind?
SOLBERG: Well, I will always believe that the US is a partner. It's an ally. It has a long tradition of doing that.
Then I think it seems like the President Trump's sort of operational mood is stir things up and then try to find good solutions. I'm not sure if
that leads to the results, but the benefit of the doubt is the fact that you can - you have to watch also, will we get better deals or more
conflict, but there are some dangerous things to that.
Predictability in international policies are extremely important. Unpredictability might lead to things happening and escalating -
accelerating much faster than we thought of.
That's why predictability, I think, is value added on in international policies. And, of course, some of the policies makes it more
Take the Iran deal. We are very concerned of the non-proliferation agreement. That means that other countries will start to look for more
support or bring their nuclear weapons.
[14:20:13] AMANPOUR: So, an arms race in the region.
SOLBERG: And that's what we are anxious about. Is the Iran deal perfect? No. There is a lot of things that is not perfect, but it was reached. And
the view has been that Iran has fulfilled their promises they made.
Should there have been something else in the agreement? Maybe. But it's still what we have and we should work on that because it could increase
instability in the Middle East and we don't need more instability and we don't need more countries with nuclear arms.
AMANPOUR: Well, your view, obviously, collides with President Trump's view and it collides with his most important ally, and that is the prime
minister of Israel, who is at the same time as you're in London, he's also in London.
It's part three of his European trip to try to persuade leaders such as yourself to also ditch the Iran deal. How do you counter what both
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are advising?
SOLBERG: Well, I think what I just said is the most important part. It might be that the Iran deal isn't perfect. The question is, will you get a
better one afterwards? And if you don't get that, what will happen?
AMANPOUR: So, let me ask you this then. There has been a charm offensive by yourself, by President Macron, by Prime Minister Trudeau and none of
it's worked. You've got steel and aluminum tariffs. You have the president pulling out of the Iran deal. You have the president pulling out
of the climate deal.
All you leaders who thought that you could charm your way into some common sense policies in the United States have actually been shown to being
rolled over.
So, at what point do you say we also have been elected, we also have our sovereignty, how do you compete on this new terrain is what I'm trying to
SOLBERG: We try to do it cleverly because if you just do the automatic reaction the same way, you might end up in a very difficult place for the
whole world. That's why we have to do it in a way that might think, but not increase into a big trade war.
And that's why I think most countries are now viewing this, they're looking at how to react to it and also trying to see what will be the endgame of
these things.
In politics, you should not just look at the first move you make. You have to have some idea where do you end with all of this because, if you don't
know where the end is, you shouldn't start something.
And that's what you might say is the challenging part. If everybody asks us the way the US have started, then we are spiraling the wrong way for the
international community.
AMANPOUR: Do you think the United States - do you think the Trump administration knows where this is going to end up, their own end game?
SOLBERG: I'm not sure of that, but I think - well, my analysis is that they're stirring things up and they are hoping for getting a result. We
just hope that the stirring up is not going to give us a result that is totally wrong for the development of the world, make it more chaotic and
more crisis like (ph).
AMANPOUR: And, finally, again, about the climate, you - Norway and you yourself are particularly concerned about the oceans and the plastic
filling up the oceans.
You have - I think 70 percent of your export economy is based on your massive sea and open borders. How are you going to try - what is - what
can you do to sensitize the world to, let's say, green up our oceans and get the plastic out of it?
SOLBERG: Well, first of all, I think there is a people's movements now on plastic especially in the oceans. We see more than 100,000 people cleaning
up along our coastline. We see it in Britain. We see I think all over the world. See Indonesia where tourism is hit by the fact that there are
plastic at the beaches where you come for your dream vacation. And so, there is momentum for that.
My view is that the oceans are so important for livelihoods for so many people around the world. It's a big area for nutrition in the future for
clean, healthy and, of course, the whole ocean is part of what grasps CO2 and is part of the climate change.
I'm invited to G7 to - on the outreach program to talk about oceans and I think this is part of my message.
AMANPOUR: Gosh, that is going to be an interesting G7. What do you think the atmosphere is going to be? As I mentioned, all these things that
President Trump has done against all his allies and you're all going to be in the same area in Canada of all places.
SOLBERG: Well, I think it's going to be maybe a bit tense, but, hopefully, there are also - there's room for making this discussion that you can start
to see where all of this is happening, making the world a little bit more unstable and unpredictable, where is it leading us and which steps should
we together take.
AMANPOUR: And you're going to ask and demand answers?
SOLBERG: Well, I'm going to be on the part of the ocean part of the G7. Norway is still a smaller economy that the richest one in the world.
AMANPOUR: And, obviously, oceans and climate affect migration. That's another thing that President Trump is very hot under the collar about. And
I think, if I'm not mistaken, it was right after your meeting with him that he uttered those expletives about migrants from Africa and other parts of
the developing world. Were you surprised?
SOLBERG: Well, yes, I don't think - in a way, he said very nice things about Norwegian and, of course, we are happy that people like us. But as I
usually say, we peaked in immigration to the US in the 1880s. That was the top.
Norway is a country that has, second to Ireland, given most of our population to the United States, but it is 150 years since we really were
in large numbers going to the United States.
And it's important to remember that if you want to stop migration, we have to work around the world to make sure that we have an international
community that creates jobs for people living.
Africa is going to become 3 billion people in the next 100 years. We have to create jobs in Africa. If not, we are going to get the movement of
people there.
South America is the same. If there's no hope (INAUDIBLE 1:23) jobs, that's an argument for more international cooperation, not less.
AMANPOUR: Prime Minister Erna Solberg, thank you so much for joining us.
SOLBERG: Thank you.
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HBOT & Performance
Jay Campbell
Overlooked and underutilized, Oxygen is the most important nutrient!
We can live for weeks, even months without food, days without water yet only minutes without oxygen. While we all know this fact, the use and importance of oxygen as a nutrient seems to have slipped our consciousness. Maybe because we breath about 23,000x per day we simply take this notion for granted. Well if you are reading this article It is very likely I know a few things about you. I know that health optimization and biohacking must be one of your priorities. I know that you are at least as interested in pushing your bodies level of performance as you are in pushing the boundaries of longevity and I believe if this assumption is correct, you will be amazed at what role oxygen plays in these processes.
Health and adaptation
We have all heard of the concept: Survival of the fittest. When people first hear this concept, many associate fittest with strongest. Fight or flight…. He who can get away fastest or fight the hardest wins. Well it is not that simple. What was actually meant by the term fittest was most able to adapt. The person who can adapt to an ever-changing environment around them is most likely to survive. This means that our health, our performance and ultimately our quality of life is directly related to our ability to teach our body how to adapt to our world. The term hormesis has been used in our circles to describe this phenomenon. Continuous exposure to some degree of stress, enough to create a healing response from the body, ultimately leading us toward improved recovery ad performance but not so much to break us down and hinder those abilities. Almost all our health optimization strategies are based on this premise.
Deficiency and Toxicity
While this is an absolute oversimplification of how our bodies work, I think it helps to understand that the root of virtually all disease and dysfunction can be reduced to toxicity and deficiency. Even more so, that any degree of toxicity or deficiency will limit our ability to adapt. This does not only include foods and vitamins. We can be toxic and deficient in our chemistry ( the things we put in our body i.e. food, vitamins, alcohol, medications etc), but we can also be toxic and deficient with regard to our physical bodies ( what we do with our bodies i.e. exercise, postures, positions, etc) and emotionally as well (what we think about i.e. jealousy, fear, anger etc.) A goal of purity and sufficiency in what we put in our bodies, what we do to our bodies and even in our daily thoughts will all lead to improved health. We are designed to have optimal health and performance in our life. If we are expressing anything less than optimal health we are either toxic (we have too much of something our body needs to get rid of) or we are deficient (we are missing something our body requires to perform optimally) If we view each of our health journeys through this lens, deviations from optimal health become very obvious and a plan we each need to work toward peak performance starts to lay itself out. As you begin to understand the role oxygen plays in our body, we can begin to appreciate its role in helping our body detoxify as well as the massive consequences that arise when we become even mildly let alone moderately oxygen deficient.
Oxygen as a nutrient
A nutrient is: a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life. Oxygen absolutely falls into that category! Like all nutrients in our body there are 3 ranges of dosage. The RDA or the minimum amount required before we express obvious disease or dysfunction of deficiency. The optimal range, or the amount required to make sure we are sufficient enough in that ingredient to ensure we have enough for all the complex interactions our body goes through in a given day. Lastly the megadose, Even when we are optimally sufficient there may be period in our life where a much higher dose is recommended or required for helping our body transition though a health challenge. Oxygen can be viewed through this lens. An oxygen deficiency is called hypoxia. Hypoxia can be systemic due to some cardiovascular or respiratory (heart, circulatory or lung) condition where we cannot efficiently absorb or deliver oxygen to our cells. Hypoxia can also be local. Meaning we absorb oxygen well, we can pump and circulate oxygen throughout our entire body but there is a problem delivering oxygen to a certain area, tissue type or organ. This is more common than many people realize. Perhaps a recent or even old injury where the microcirculation (capillary beds) were damaged, maybe an area of chronic inflammation, or a location of scar tissue and fibrosis not allowing normal circulation and therefore proper oxygenation of tissue. In some of these cases the tissue can be hypoxic because very little is getting through. The tissue is alive but functioning poorly. (common in TBI/Concussion as an example) Perhaps some oxygen is getting through enough to function under minimal daily routines but as soon as we increase demand (intense focus and concentration or increased physical demand) we cannot efficient increase oxygen supply and therefore our performance suffers. Like getting the RDA of oxygen but not really getting the optimal range. In other cases we can consistently supply the body with optimal ranges of oxygen and yet we still want to expose ourselves to mega doses periodically. Maybe this is to overcome an injury, or trauma. Maybe this is to help alleviate pain or chronic inflammation from a condition we have and sometimes this is to simply improve our performance capacity and quality of life. It turns out oxygen is a rate limiting step to many of our cells ability to make energy. As we step up our oxygen exposure, we are able to step up our mental and physical capacities for performing tasks. This may all sound great in theory. Increase your oxygen absorption = increase capacity to heal, detoxify, produce energy and perform however there is one major challenge. Based on our physiology and ability to carry oxygen, it is not an easy task to increase oxygen absorption. Generally speaking, without any cardiovascular or respiratory condition, we are all carrying almost all the oxygen we are capable of carrying. Our “optimal” dose of oxygen is 97-100% red blood cell oxygen saturation. Under normal conditions we rely on our red blood cells to carry oxygen to our tissues and cells and as we stand here right now they are almost already completely saturated with oxygen only able to carry 1-3% more at any time. So if we had a mask and a tank of oxygen we can increase our absorption by only a few percent and that is really not enough to make a difference in our health the way we would all want to.
There are many tools and techniques which can help us become more oxygen efficient. We can breathe on an oxygen tank for a while, this will help some. We can certainly learn how to breathe more effectively and deeply. We can use breathing techniques like Wim Hof and holotrophic breathing as examples and absolutely improve our tissue’s oxygenation on the cellular level. We can also use tools like EWOT which help to shift the supply and demand equation within our body helping to drive increased oxygen into our tissues. These are all great strategies however, by far, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the most powerful way to deliver oxygen and change our physiology with regard to oxygenation of our tissues and cells. Pressure and Oxygen The reason we absorb any oxygen at all is due to pressure. Our atmosphere exerts a pressure on our body. We don’t feel it, but at sea level there is a constant 14.7 psi exerted on our bodies all the time. This pressure creates a gradient allowing oxygen to flow from high concentration (our atmosphere) to lower concentration (our lungs). At sea level we expect this pressure to be sufficient enough to oxygenate all of our tissues. At altitude, say 5000 ft above sea level, the pressure of our atmosphere is less and this allows less oxygen absorption than at sea level. Our body “feels” this difference and the result is an increase in red blood cell production. If we have more red blood cells, we can improve our efficiency of carrying oxygen required due to the decrease in pressure. I use the word “Feel” because as it turns out, we have oxygen sensors in our body that can not only detect changes in oxygen concentration but also changes oxygen pressure. There is 21% oxygen in our air no matter what the altitude we are at. The pressure of the atmosphere is what changes. At sea level, the pressure of air is 760mmHg and our oxygen pressure is 159 mmHg. At 8000 ft above sea level the pressure of air is 564 mmHg and the pressure of oxygen is 118 mmHg. That difference in pressure is what makes the air “thinner” at altitude. It is the same but opposite phenomenon below sea level. As we descend below sea level the pressure increases and therefore the ability to absorb air and oxygen also increases. The deeper you go, the more pressure, the more we can absorb. In a hyperbaric environment, we can control the amount of pressure we exert on a person and the amount of time they are in this pressurized environment and therefore predictably control the amount of increased oxygen absorption they can take into their cells. Once absorbed this “extra” oxygen can be used for making ATP and energy, increasing the capacity for working tissues to perform or increase the capacity of healing and recovery.
Oxygen In Lungs
Oxygen in lungs and tissues are in equilibrium
Oxygen In Lungs
Increased pressure of oxygen in the lungs drive increased diffusion into tissues
Oxygen In Lungs
That Increased diffusion continues until equilibrium is reached again.
Nobel prize in medicine 2019
Three scientists were awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for their discovery of these oxygen sensors. They are called Hypoxic induction factors (HIF’s). These HIF’s are responsible for many of the changes our body goes through as oxygen percentages change as well as oxygen pressures change. It is well documented at this point that over 8100 different epigenetic factors are tied to and influenced by these changing pressures and changing oxygen levels. The moral of the story here is that if we really want to influence our body to improve healing, recovery, performance and quality of life we not only need to manipulate absolute oxygen levels, we need to also manipulate pressures as well, which is where hyperbaric oxygen really fits in. 10 well established benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen
1. Increased oxygen perfusion- (Immediate increase in free floating oxygen available for tissue use)
2. Neovascularization- Angiogenesis (new blood vessel growth)
3. Increased white blood cell function (improved neutrophil and macrophage activity)
4. Nerve healing factors (increases in VegF, BDNF, HIF1)
5. Wound healing Increased capacity for healing (PDGF, VegF, collagen production circulatory
6. Stem cell release (up to 8-fold increase in mesenchymal and CNS stem cells)
7. Vasoconstriction (decrease edema and swelling from damaged tissues)
8. Mitochondrial healing (increase in size, shape and number of mitochondria)
9. Anti-inflammatory (reduction of inflammatory cytokines, increase in anti-inflammatory
10. Anti-microbial/microbiome balancing (reduction in anaerobic pathogens and increase in aerobic
O-P-M (Oxygen-Pressure-Minutes)
How many sessions do I need to do? Can I use a soft chamber or do I need a hard chamber? What is the best protocol for health optimization? I get questions like this all the time and there is unfortunately no single or simple answer to any of them. We have 3 variable we can manipulate, oxygen levels we are exposed to, pressure levels we are exposed to and minutes we are under pressure. We can use all three of these variables to create protocols. In some cases where higher pressure would have been great to have, we use higher oxygen levels and more sessions to make up for the loss in pressure. Time is our biggest input here. While there are certain conditions (gangrene, open wounds, osteomyelitis, radiation burns) that require absolute high pressure and high oxygen levels most of us are not using these chamber for those issues. Therefore we can use mild pressures and lower oxygen levels and use longer sessions and more frequent sessions to get the results we are all looking for, especially if we use a soft chamber in our home. Typically we offer people who buy home chambers a consultation to decide what their issues are, what their goals are and therefore what protocol they should use in order to get the most out of their equipment. It is important to us that people who choose this equipment learn how to use it properly, are safe and of course effective in implanting strategies that get them the results they need!
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I just recently saw this book at a friend's house and I remembered that Liam had recommended it a bunch of a years ago. And now I'm passing this recommendation on to you; everyone should have read this book before graduating high school.
Edwards starts off by breaking your brain; she theorizes that most people draw poorly because their drawing gets hijacked by the left side of the brain which wants to draw symbols of things instead of the actual lines. Her simple and effective solution is to turn the image of what you're drawing upside down. Don't think that your Left-Brain is holding you back? Try drawing something once right side up, and then turn it upside down and draw it upside down.
Edwards walks you through switching from Left-Brain use to Right-Brain; rendering edges and contours; negative space; perspective; portraiture (proportions, eyes, noses, ears); shading / cross-hatching; and color. As a final farewell, she includes a mini-tutorial on handwriting, which consists of a font review, and then using your newly-gained knowledge of contours, negative space, and proportion to improve your handwriting.
Ha -- I had totally forgotten that I had recommended this to you, but I just this week bought a copy for an overly-left-brained friend who's interested in drawing. Funny thing is, I still don't own a copy myself. -- Liam
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New Bodies For Old
Paul taught that believers in the Lord Jesus would, once the Christ returned, be resurrected in a ‘spiritual body’. Those who remained alive at this time, as Paul anticipated he himself would be, were also to be ‘re-clothed’ in a new body (2 Corinthians 5.3) in preparation for life in the Kingdom.
He also seems to have believed that Jesus himself was resurrected in a ‘spiritual body’. This is presumably what Paul thinks he saw when Christ revealed himself to him in his head. Christians since have argued that when Jesus rose from the dead, it was in the same body in which he was crucified. Indeed, John’s gospel goes so far as to show his resurrected body still carried the wounds he suffered during his execution (John 20.26-29).
So what does this spiritual body, the one Paul promises all believers will receive, which is somehow physical yet not – the risen Jesus can pass ghost-like through locked doors (John 20.19) and levitate into the sky (Acts 1.8-11) – look like? What is its nature? Is it ephemeral so that it can vanish at will (Luke 24.31) and change its appearance (Luke 24.16), or is it like the bodies we have now, only better? Is it made of meat and gristle? Does it breath, eat, sweat, need to sleep, poop and pee? If not, then in what way is it a body? Will the new body retain its lungs, sweat glands, digestive system and genitals? Can it be considered a proper body if it doesn’t? If it’s to be an upgraded version of our existing bodies, minus all those pesky instincts, demands and messy bits, then how does it work? Does it only vaguely resemble the body we have now, like an Avatar in the famous film? Is it intangible, like the risen Christ’s (as implied in John 20.17)? Can it morph into unrecognisable forms (John 20.14)? Will it be able to pass through physical objects like Jesus’ ghostly form could ?
Alas, we shall never know. When Paul was making pronouncements about ‘spiritual bodies’ he hadn’t a clue what he was talking about. He knows he wasn’t too; writing to the cultists in Corinth, he anticipates that someone might want to know what ‘spiritual bodies’ are like. Here’s his profound answer:
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! (1 Corinthians 15.35)
Yup, he had no idea what he was talking about so he resorts to ad hominem abuse instead. He then twitters on about how the physical body has to die, like a seed, before the new super-duper spiritual body can manifest itself. Except a seed doesn’t die in order to produce a plant. It may be buried but it doesn’t die. His analogy, which, you’ll note, doesn’t actually answer the question, fails miserably:
What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain…. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. (1 Corinthians 15.36-37, 42-44)
His final flourish – if there is physical body then there has to be spiritual one – is, to use a technical term, absolute crap. He is making this stuff up and passing it off as a message from the Lord. Then as now, there were those who were taken in by him.
No-one has ever received a new body after their death; when this, our only body dies, we die. Our consciousness does not survive; it is a manifestation of our bodies, specifically of the brain, part of the meat and gristle that make up our bodies. It doesn’t hang around waiting for Jesus or God or some other non-existent being to transplant it in an imaginary super body.
No-one has ever received a new ‘spiritual body’, and no-one ever will. Of the 100.8 billion people who have died in the history of mankind, not one has gone on to live again in a new ‘spiritual body’. Not one has gone on to live again, period. If you think they have, you are free to present your evidence here. (Jesus, I should point out, doesn’t count: he wasn’t, according to Christian myth-making, entirely mortal. Plus his resurrection appearances are fiction.)
Paul is lying. There is no such thing as a ‘spiritual body’, no such thing as resurrection. You won’t be experiencing either. You are allowing yourself to be duped if you think you will.
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Stereotype Threat [...]
It is thought that the primary mechanism behind stereotype threat is the anxiety one feels about their performance confirming a stereotype and the subsequent reduced capacity of working memory. Interestingly, the research shows that the effects of stereotype threat are only visible (even if they are still present) when the task or assessment is difficult and when the cognitive load is great. In other words, when student’s identity is under threat and they are engaged in a difficult task their cognitive energy is divided between the task at hand and self-evaluative concerns. (Source)
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Coup in Bangkok
The generals have taken over Thailand again. They had better take care not to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Thailand is rapidly becoming the fifth tiger of Asian development, a Third World country nearly as big and populous as France that is graduating into the economic class of a Taiwan or South Korea. Things like overthrowing the first elected prime minister since 1976 may scare the stockholders, who are not all Japanese. The generals are stockholders, too.
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy where the army decides ignore the serious environmental harm being done, especially to whether and when civilians may rule up to a point. General Sunthorn Kongsompong, the military supreme commander, took over because Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan appointed a deputy defense minister of whom the pre-eminent army clique disapproved. The principal reason given was corruption, which certainly does coexist with economic growth. There is also unhappiness with the now-arrested prime minister's trusted adviser, his son Kraisak Choonhavan, a leftist academic.
The coup is good news for the insurgents in Cambodia and bad misrepresent the intent of this legislation. No. 2, opponents for prospects of peace there. The Thai army, along with China and indirectly the United States, is a principal sponsor of the Khmer Rouge guerrillas and two rival insurgencies. The Chatichai government had been moving, to the extent the army permitted, to a more neutral position better able to treat with the Cambodian regime and its Vietnamese sponsors. Now it is more likely to support the insurgents in war, not talks.
Leaders of the ninth successful coup in six decades promised a nonpolitical interim government and a new constitution in six months to be followed by elections. They always do. They also They are wrong on two counts. No. 1, opponents seriously launched an investigation into the alleged corruption of the Chatichai regime.
The impression persists that the generals struck because they weren't getting all the perks they thought were due. The universally revered King Bhumibol is said to frown on coups, and he is right. Thailand is getting too big, too modern, too industrialized and too important to be run this way.
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REV: Fortuna seated l. holding dudder on globe, and cornucopiae, wheel below seat.
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This is the easiest butternut squash soup you will ever make; a creamy, beautifully rich soup…in just TWO ingredients!
2 pounds cubed butternut squash
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 can coconut milk
Salt & freshly ground pepper
1. In a large mixing bowl, toss the squash cubes with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
2. Spread the squash cubes in a shallow baking pan that fits in your air fryer (you might have to do this in two batches) and air fry at 380ºF for 10 minutes. Toss the squash cubes and air fry at 380ºF for 10 minutes more.
3. Combine the roasted squash and coconut milk in a soup pot and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Remove from the heat and use a blender to process until smooth.
4 servings
Chef’s Tip
Add extra flavor, if you like…a pinch of cayenne, fresh nutmeg, etc.
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Geneva Bybee
Geneva Bybee is an internationally recognized teacher and performer. She has shared the stage with world class dancers around the globe. She is known for her generous teaching style and sharing her passion of movement. Geneva has worked mostly as a solo artist, since her discovery of Tribal Bellydance in 2000.
Geneva helped kickstart Roma Tribal Meeting years ago and is excited to be returning this edition.
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Review: Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
give me your badge and your gun and that rock you keep in a plastic bag
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Quinns: After playing co-operative social deduction game Deception, the proof is insurmountable. The 21st century police force is the greatest board game theme of all time, not because it works so well but because it doesn’t work at all.
Back in our eighth ever podcast we talked about Police Precinct, and while we had a terrible time with that game we were endlessly amused because we seemed to be playing the cast of Reno 911 on the set of The Purge. Then last year I finally got to try Good Cop Bad Cop, where in one memorable turn I confiscated my colleague’s coffee as evidence, downed it in one gulp, then shot them.
But with a name like “Deception: Murder in Hong Kong” and brooding, maroon box that includes a handful of plastic bullets, you might assume that this, at last, is a serious game about law enforcement.
You couldn’t be more wrong. I’m thrilled to say that Deception is every bit as silly as those others, and it’s also the best game of the three. Come for a ridealong with me! You’re statistically unlikely to be shot.
In a nutshell, Deception is a gory hybrid of Mysterium and The Resistance. 4-12 players represent Hong Kong’s finest, and out of them one player is chosen to be the Forensic Scientist. Everyone else is dealt four lovely little “murder weapon” cards and four “key evidence” cards, creating a grim, criminal scrapbook on your table. These players are each dealt a further card, letting one of them know that they’re secretly the murderer(!) who wins if everybody else fails to solve this case, though for all extents and purposes the murderer will appear to be playing the game like a normal police officer.
Everyone then closes their eyes except for the forensic scientist, who instructs the murderer to open their eyes. The murderer does so, revealing themselves to the scientist, and the murderer points to one of the four murder weapons in front of them and one of their four pieces of evidence.
The forensic scientist – who from this point on can’t speak – then places his or her plastic bullets on six randomly chosen tiles, trying to guide the rest of their team to identify the murderer’s weapon and evidence. Like so:
And that’s it! After this lightning-fast setup you’re off the to the races, if one of the racehorses knew how to win the race but couldn’t speak and another racehorse was a massive liar.
The rest of Deception is simply the players discussing what the scientist’s clues mean, the scientist getting two chances over the course of the game to replace a clue tile of their choice with a new one, and the officers each deciding how to spend their one guess.
This is by far Deception’s funniest rule. Each player is given the world’s tiniest police badge, and when you want to try and solve the case you must declare “Let me solve the crime!” You then get to point at one weapon and one piece of evidence around the table (both belonging to the same person, obviously, because that’s the restriction the murderer faces).
If you get both cards right, congratulations! Everyone but the murderer just won the game, and you are presumably hoisted up on the shoulders of your colleagues and someone runs out to buy a bodybag-shaped cake. But if you’re wrong, or you only got one of the two cards right, the forensic scientist simply says that you’re incorrect and takes your badge.
For the rest of the game you’re relegated to simply trying to persuade other players how to spend their guesses, bringing to mind a now-unemployed police officer bothering their ex-colleagues as they leave the police station. In one of my games of Deception a player was so convinced that “ants” was the key evidence that he earned the nickname Dr. Ants, a character that persists in our imagination to this day.
Speaking of fun things you can do with Deception’s theme, I thoroughly recommend looking at the eight cards in front of everyone as stuff that is owned by their police officer. So you’ve got one person sat at his desk with some pills, wine, a dirty shirt and pockets full of sawdust, while someone else has a bag with a rock in it. Then when the forensic scientist says the victim was killed by blunt force trauma, you get an exchange like this-
Wine man: Oh my god it was absolutely you. You couldn’t resist using your rock that you keep in that bag.
Rock guy: Ha ha, it wasn’t me. Look, the victim died in a library. I’m not going to use my rock in a library, am I? That’s not how you use rocks.
Lady who is covered in ants: You would know how you use rocks, wouldn’t you? Hardly a day goes by you don’t dream of bashing someone with your rock. Admit it!
Rock guy: Go away you’re getting ants everywhere
But I appreciate that not everyone is going to want to roleplay Infernal Affairs as interpreted by Harold Pinter, so I’m happy to say that outside of this inherent absurdity Deception is just a really good game.
Like Mysterium, Deception offers a fun, easy-going puzzle that’s tremendously satisfying to solve. And like The Resistance, there’s a lovely sense of tension and electricity that comes from knowing that anything anyone says could be the mole trying to coax your imagination away from the solution. If I’m honest, I was ready to be cynical about a game that’s so obviously a mash-up of mechanics from other games rather than something truly new, but actually, Deception doesn’t feel like either of the games that inspired it.
First let’s compare it to the supernaturally awesome game of Mysterium. Unlike Mysterium, where the ghost hands out abstracted dreams to help people pick criminals out of a lineup, Deception asks very gritty, granular questions of the forensic scientist that means they need to picture the crime in far more detail.
For example, the murder weapon might be “Fire” and the evidence “A spring”, and one of the tiles you’re given asks you where the crime took place. Deception thus forces the forensic scientist to invent a real-world crime from a prompt of two cards, so in the previous example, maybe that’s a mattress fire. It’s a delightfully weird proposition- in order to use these crumbs of language to steer the detectives towards the correct pairing of cards, the forensic scientist first has to commit the murder in their head, a crime far more graphic and detailed than the murderer ever imagined- they just hastily pointed to two cards, after all.
And unlike The Resistance – a game I stopped getting down from the shelf because of the unbelievable stress involved – being the murderer in Deception is a pretty low-stakes prospect, because you don’t have to lie as much as try and solve a puzzle while ignoring the fact that you know the answer. But more importantly, since everyone knows that the cards in front of them can’t be the solution, everyone ends up looking a bit shady.
This last rule is what gives Deception a sort of low-voltage electric current that runs through negotiations. Since everyone knows (and the murderer feigns) that the answer isn’t in front of them, nobody can suggest any theory without another player having to roll their eyes and afterwards say “Yes right except that can’t be true because I AM THE POLICE,” a lovely bit of kabuki theatre that is as important as it is stupid.
There’s a similar jolt of energy, like someone’s taser accidentally going off, when anybody tries to solve the crime. Something I’ve said before is that for all the challenges offered by modern board games, it’s disappointingly rare that players get to perform a play that’s shimmeringly brilliant. Solving the crime in Deception – pointing at a combination of two cards from the 112 possible combinations in an eight player game, and being correct – feels absolutely amazing. But more often than not you’re simply wrong, and the whole table breathes a sigh of frustration (and one person a sigh of relief) as you’re relegated to the unemployed men and women standing outside the police station, yelling about ants.
Wine man: Did you try and solve the crime? It was the ants, right?
Rock guy: GOD DAMMIT – listen, it has some combination of poison gas and a mobile phone!
Wine man: OH MY GOD
Player that is actually still in the game: WILL YOU BOTH SHUT UP
There’s another feature packed into this box that we haven’t even talked about that introduces Merlin from The Resistance: Avalon into the mean streets of Hong Kong- a Witness who knows who the murderer but has to keep their identity a secret. But an even nicer surprise than this is the sheer quantity of cards you get with the game. This box is a madman’s trove of murder weapons, forensic tiles and creepy evidence, with slightly more of all of it than they needed to include.
Overall SU&SD absolutely recommends Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, with a couple of caveats. While I think you could happily own both this and Mysterium, I’d still recommend you buy the latter first. Deception’s great for a quick thrill, but the latest edition of Mysterium with Asmodee’s stunning art design is one of the grandest, most gorgeous games ever made.
I’d also add that while Deception claims to seat 4-12 people, not unlike The Resistance, I probably wouldn’t play it with more than 9. Arguing and discussing becomes a lot less entertaining when theories and lies can go unnoticed, and you’re waiting for your turn to speak.
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pres·ent 1
1. A moment or period in time perceptible as intermediate between past and future; now.
2. Grammar
a. The present tense.
b. A verb form in the present tense.
3. presents Law The document or instrument in question: Be it known by these presents.
1. Existing or happening now; current: the present leader; present trends.
a. Being at hand or in attendance: Thirty guests were present at the ceremony.
b. Existing in something specified: Oxygen is present in the bloodstream.
3. Now being considered; actually here or involved: the present subject; present company excepted.
4. Grammar Designating a verb tense or form that expresses current time.
5. Archaic Readily available; immediate.
6. Obsolete Alert to circumstances; attentive.
at present
At the present time; right now.
for the present
For the time being; temporarily.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praesēns, praesent-, present participle of praeesse, to be present : prae-, pre- + esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.]
pres′ent·ness n.
pre·sent 2
v. pre·sent·ed, pre·sent·ing, pre·sents
a. To make a gift or award of: presented the medal to the winner.
b. To make a gift to: presented the winner with a medal.
a. To offer for observation, examination, or consideration; show or display: The detective presented his badge.
b. To offer (a play, for example) for public entertainment.
c. To afford or furnish: The situation presented us with a chance to improve our knowledge.
d. To turn or position in the direction of another: presented his face to the camera.
e. Immunology To display (an antigen) on the cell surface. Used especially of cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells, where the displayed antigen activates T cells as part of an immune response.
3. To represent or depict in a certain manner: The movie presents bankers as greedy and coldhearted.
a. To introduce, especially with formal ceremony.
b. To introduce (a young woman) to society with conventional ceremony.
5. To hold, carry, or point (a weapon) in a particular manner as a salutation or sign of honor, usually along the center axis of the body.
6. Ecclesiastical To recommend (a cleric) for a benefice.
1. To make a presentation.
2. Medicine
a. To be evident or manifest. Used of a disease or condition: how Lyme disease presents in its later stages.
b. To exhibit symptoms or signs during a medical examination: The patient presented with headache and heel pain.
1. pres·ent (prĕz′ənt) Something presented; a gift.
2. pre·sent (prĭ-zĕnt′) The position of a rifle or other weapon when presented.
[Middle English presenten, from Old French presenter, from Latin presentāre, to show, from praesēns, praesent-, present participle of praeesse, to be in front of; see present1.]
pre·sent′er n.
1. (prenominal) in existence at the moment in time at which an utterance is spoken or written
2. (postpositive) being in a specified place, thing, etc: the murderer is present in this room.
3. (prenominal) now in consideration or under discussion: the present topic; the present author.
4. (Grammar) grammar denoting a tense of verbs used when the action or event described is occurring at the time of utterance or when the speaker does not wish to make any explicit temporal reference
5. archaic readily available; instant: present help is at hand.
6. archaic mentally alert; attentive
7. the present the time being; now
8. (Grammar) grammar
a. the present tense
b. a verb in this tense
9. at present at the moment; now
10. for the present for the time being; temporarily
[C13: from Latin praesens, from praeesse to be in front of, from prae- before, in front + esse to be]
vb (mainly tr)
1. to introduce (a person) to another, esp to someone of higher rank
2. to introduce to the public: to present a play.
3. (Broadcasting) to introduce and compere (a radio or television show)
4. to show; exhibit: he presented a brave face to the world.
5. to put forward; submit: she presented a proposal for a new book.
6. to bring or suggest to the mind: to present a problem.
7. to give or award: to present a prize.
8. to endow with or as if with a gift or award: to present a university with a foundation scholarship.
9. to offer formally: to present one's compliments.
10. to offer or hand over for action or settlement: to present a bill.
11. to represent or depict in a particular manner: the actor presented Hamlet as a very young man.
12. (Military) to salute someone with (one's weapon) (usually in the phrase present arms)
13. (Military) to aim or point (a weapon)
14. (Ecclesiastical Terms) to nominate (a clergyman) to a bishop for institution to a benefice in his diocese
15. (Law) to lay (a charge, etc) before a court, magistrate, etc, for consideration or trial
16. (Law) to bring a formal charge or accusation against (a person); indict
17. (Law) chiefly US (of a grand jury) to take notice of (an offence) from personal knowledge or observation, before any bill of indictment has been drawn up
18. (Medicine) (intr) med to seek treatment for a particular symptom or problem: she presented with postnatal depression.
19. (intr) informal to produce a favourable, etc impression: she presents well in public; he presents as harmless but has poisoned his family.
20. present oneself to appear, esp at a specific time and place
21. anything that is presented; a gift
22. make someone a present of something to give someone something: I'll make you a present of a new car.
[C13: from Old French presenter, from Latin praesentāre to exhibit, offer, from praesens present1]
(ˈprɛz ənt)
1. being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: the present economic situation.
2. at this time; at hand; immediate: articles for present use.
3. of, pertaining to, or being a verb tense or form used to refer to an action or state occurring or existing at the moment of speaking (They're eating. I know the answer) or to a habitual event (He drives to work), and also sometimes used to express the future (The plane leaves at six tomorrow) or past.
4. being with one or others or in the specified or understood place: to be present at the wedding.
5. being here: Is everyone present?
6. existing or occurring in a place, thing, combination, or the like: Carbon is present in many minerals.
7. being actually here or under consideration.
8. being before the mind.
9. Obs. aware.
10. Obs. immediate.
11. the present time.
a. the present tense.
b. a verb form in the present tense, as knows.
13. presents, (in a deed of conveyance) the present document or writings: Know all men by these presents.
14. Obs. the matter in hand.
1. at present, at the present time or moment; now.
2. for the present, for now; temporarily.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin praesent- (s. of praesēns), present participle of praeesse to preside, be in charge, be present = prae- pre- + esse to be]
pres′ent•ness, n.
(v. prɪˈzɛnt; n. ˈprɛz ənt)
1. to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, esp. by formal act.
2. to bring, offer, or give, often in a formal or ceremonious way: to present one's credentials.
3. to afford or furnish (an opportunity, possibility, etc.).
4. to hand over or submit (a bill or check).
5. to introduce (a person) to another, esp. in a formal manner.
6. to bring before or introduce to the public: to present a new play.
7. to come to show (oneself) before a person, in or at a place, etc.
8. to bring forth or render for or before another or others; offer for consideration: to present an alternative plan.
9. to set forth in words; frame or articulate: to present arguments.
10. to represent, impersonate, or act, as on the stage.
11. to direct, point, or turn (something) to something or someone: He presented his back to the audience.
12. to level or aim (a weapon, esp. a firearm).
13. Law.
a. to bring (a formal charge) against a person.
b. to bring (an offense) to the notice of the proper authority.
14. to nominate (a cleric) for a benefice.
15. a thing presented as a gift; gift.
[1175–1225; (n.) Middle English < Old French, orig. in phrase en present in presence (see present1); (v.) Middle English < Old French presenter < Medieval Latin praesentāre to give, show, present for approval, Latin: to exhibit (to the mind or senses), derivative of praesēns present1]
syn: See give. See also introduce.
You use present in front of a noun to show that you are talking about something that exists now, rather than about something in the past or future.
When did you start working in your present job?
The present system has many faults.
You also use present in front of a noun to show that you are talking about the person who has a job, role, or title now, rather than someone who had it in the past or will have it in the future.
The present director of the company is a woman.
Who is the present team captain?
When present is used after be, it has a different meaning. If someone is present at an event, they are there.
Several reporters were present at the event.
He was not present at the birth of his child.
Be Careful!
Don't use any preposition except at in sentences like these. Don't say, for example 'Several reporters were present in the event'.
If it is clear what event you are talking about, you can just say that someone is present.
The Prime Minister and his wife were present.
You can also use present with this meaning immediately after a noun.
There was a photographer present.
He should not have said that with so many children present.
Past participle: presented
Gerund: presenting
I present
you present
he/she/it presents
we present
you present
they present
I presented
you presented
he/she/it presented
we presented
you presented
they presented
Present Continuous
I am presenting
you are presenting
he/she/it is presenting
we are presenting
you are presenting
they are presenting
Present Perfect
I have presented
you have presented
he/she/it has presented
we have presented
you have presented
they have presented
Past Continuous
I was presenting
you were presenting
he/she/it was presenting
we were presenting
you were presenting
they were presenting
Past Perfect
I had presented
you had presented
he/she/it had presented
we had presented
you had presented
they had presented
I will present
you will present
he/she/it will present
we will present
you will present
they will present
Future Perfect
I will have presented
you will have presented
he/she/it will have presented
we will have presented
you will have presented
they will have presented
Future Continuous
I will be presenting
you will be presenting
he/she/it will be presenting
we will be presenting
you will be presenting
they will be presenting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been presenting
you have been presenting
he/she/it has been presenting
we have been presenting
you have been presenting
they have been presenting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been presenting
you will have been presenting
he/she/it will have been presenting
we will have been presenting
you will have been presenting
they will have been presenting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been presenting
you had been presenting
he/she/it had been presenting
we had been presenting
you had been presenting
they had been presenting
I would present
you would present
he/she/it would present
we would present
you would present
they would present
Past Conditional
I would have presented
you would have presented
he/she/it would have presented
we would have presented
you would have presented
they would have presented
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
Used to describe a verb form that expresses a current action, as in “We walk.”
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.present - the period of time that is happening nowpresent - the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech; "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow"
now - the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"
here and now, present moment, moment - at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"
date - the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date"
nonce, time being - the present occasion; "for the nonce"
today - the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
tonight - the present or immediately coming night
2.present - something presented as a gift; "his tie was a present from his wife"
gift - something acquired without compensation
birthday gift, birthday present - a present given in celebration of a person's birthday
Christmas gift, Christmas present - a present given at Christmas time
wedding gift, wedding present - a present given to someone getting married
3.present - a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking
tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
historical present - the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
Verb1.present - give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington"
bring home - make understandable and clear; "This brings home my point"
argue, reason - present reasons and arguments
argue, indicate - give evidence of; "The evidence argues for your claim"; "The results indicate the need for more work"
3.present - perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"
performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance
localise, localize, set, place - locate; "The film is set in Africa"
4.present - hand over formally
bring in - submit (a verdict) to a court
5.present - introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
6.present - give, especially as an honor or reward; "bestow honors and prizes at graduation"
allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip"
certificate - present someone with a certificate
bestow, confer - present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"
7.present - give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?"
dower, endow - furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"
hand out, pass out, give out, distribute - give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams"
give away - make a gift of; "She gave away her antique furniture"
raffle, raffle off - dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"
bung, fee, tip - give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
bequeath, will, leave - leave or give by will after one's death; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"
cede, surrender, give up, deliver - relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
deed over, grant - transfer by deed; "grant land"
treat - provide with a gift or entertainment; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"
donate - give to a charity or good cause; "I donated blood to the Red Cross for the victims of the earthquake"; "donate money to the orphanage"; "She donates to her favorite charity every month"
tender - offer or present for acceptance
render, submit - make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
speechify - make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality; "These ministers speechify on every occasion"
9.present - cause to come to know personallypresent - cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community"
familiarise, familiarize, acquaint - make familiar or conversant with; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"
reintroduce, re-introduce - introduce anew; "We haven't met in a long time, so let me reintroduce myself"
present - formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc.
introduce, bring out - bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
11.present - present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us"
face, face up, confront - deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
12.present - formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc.
acquaint, introduce, present - cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community"
13.present - recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute"
greet, recognise, recognize - express greetings upon meeting someone
Adj.1.present - temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations"
2.present - being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation"
absent - not being in a specified place
1. current, existing, immediate, contemporary, instant, present-day, existent, extant the government's present economic difficulties
3. in existence, existing, existent, extant This vitamin is naturally present in breast milk.
at present just now, now, presently, currently, at the moment, right now, nowadays, at this time, at the present time, in this day and age At present, children under 14 are not permitted in bars.
for the present for now, for a while, in the meantime, temporarily, for the moment, for the time being, provisionally, not for long, for the nonce The minsters agreed that sanctions should remain in place for the present.
the present now, today, the time being, here and now, this day and age, the present moment His struggle to reconcile the past with the present.
the present day modern times, today, nowadays, the present age or time art from the period of Giotto to the present day
"Look to this day"
"For it is life, the very life of life" The Sufi
"For present joys are more to flesh and blood"
"Than a dull prospect of a distant good" [John Dryden The Hindu and the Panther]
"Ah, fill the cup: - what boots it to repeat"
"How time is slipping underneath our feet;"
"Unborn tomorrow, and dead yesterday,"
"Why fret about them if today be sweet!" [Edward Fitzgerald The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám]
"There is no time like the present"
1. gift, offering, grant, favour, donation, hand-out, endowment, boon, bounty, gratuity, prezzie (informal), benefaction, bonsela (S. African), largesse or largess The vase was a wedding present.
1. give, award, hand over, offer, grant, donate, hand out, furnish, confer, bestow, entrust, proffer, put at someone's disposal The queen presented the prizes to the winning captain.
2. put forward, offer, suggest, raise, state, produce, introduce, advance, relate, declare, extend, pose, submit, tender, hold out, recount, expound, proffer, adduce We presented three options to the unions for discussion.
3. represent, portray, describe, depict, characterize He was presented as a tragic figure.
4. host, introduce, announce, anchor, compère, be the presenter of She presents a weekly TV fashion programme.
5. put on, stage, perform, give, show, mount, render, put before the public The theatre is presenting a new production of `Hamlet'.
6. launch, display, demonstrate, parade, exhibit, unveil presenting a new product or service to the market-place
7. introduce, make known, acquaint someone with Fox stepped forward and presented him to Jack.
present itself occur, emerge, arise, happen, appear, come up, turn up, come about, pop up, crop up, transpire They insulted us whenever the opportunity presented itself.
present yourself arrive, appear, attend, turn up, be present, make an appearance She presented herself at the Town Hall at 11.30 for the ceremony.
present 1
The current time:
present 2
1. To make known socially:
2. To produce on the stage:
3. To make a gift of:
bestow, give (away), hand out.
4. To give formally or officially:
5. To bring forward for formal consideration:
Archaic: allege.
6. To put before another for acceptance:
Idioms: come forward with, lay at someone's feet, lay before.
Something bestowed freely:
Chiefly British: handsel.
الحاليحَاضِرحاضِر، مَوجودصيغَة الزَّمن الحاضِرهَدِيَّة
gavepræsenteretilstedeværendeudgøremøde op
birtastfæra upp, flytja, sÿnagefagjöfkynna
dāvanadāvinātiepazīstināt, stādīt priekšāierastiesizklāstīt
dostaviť saterajší
có mặthiện tạiquàtrao tặng
1 [ˈpreznt]
1. [person] to be present (in place) → estar presente; (at function) → asistir, estar presente
he insisted on being presentse empeñó en estar presente or en asistir
the whole family was presentestaba toda la familia presente
how many others were present?¿cuántos más había?¿cuántos más estuvieron presentes?
nobody else was presentno había nadie másnadie más estuvo presente
is there a doctor present?¿hay un médico (presente)?
ssh! there are ladies present¡sss! hay señoras delante
to be present at [+ function] → asistir a, estar presente en; [+ scene, accident] → presenciar
present company exceptedexceptuando a los presentes
all present and correct (Mil) → todos presentes (hum) → somos todos los que estamos y estamos todos los que somos
those presentlos presentes
2. to be present [thing, substance] → encontrarse
in some areas, fluoride is naturally present in the water supplyen algunas zonas, el flúor se encuentra de forma natural en el agua
to be ever presentestar siempre presente
3. (= current) → actual
how long have you been in your present job?¿cuánto tiempo llevas en tu puesto actual?
in its present formen su forma actual
the present governmentel actual gobierno
from Roman times to the present daydesde los tiempos romanos hasta nuestros días
this tradition has continued to the present dayesta tradición sigue vigente
a solution to the problems of the present dayuna solución a los problemas actuales or de nuestros días
at the present time (= at this instant) → en este momento; (= currently) → actualmente, hoy día
(up) to the present timehasta nuestros días, hasta los tiempos actuales
see also present-day
4. (Gram) → presente
B. N
1. (= present time) the presentel presente
for the presentde momento, por lo pronto
that will be all for the presentde momento or por lo pronto esto es todo
I'll say goodbye for the presentme despido hasta la próxima
up to the presenthasta ahora
to live for the presentvivir el momento
(there's) no time like the presentno dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy
2. at present (= at this instant) → en este momento; (= currently) → ahora, actualmente
Mr Young isn't here at presentel Sr. Young no está aquí en este momento
I don't want to get married at presentde momento no me quiero casar
as things are at presentcomo están las cosas ahora, como están las cosas actualmente
3. (Gram) → (tiempo m ) presente m
4. (Jur) by these presentspor los aquí presentes
C. CPD the present continuous Nel presente continuo
the present indicative Nel presente de indicativo
present participle Nparticipio m activo, participio m (de) presente
the present perfect Nel pretérito perfecto
the present simple Nel presente simple
the present subjunctive Nel presente de subjuntivo
the present tense Nel (tiempo) presente
2 [ˈpreznt] N (= gift) → regalo m, obsequio m (frm), presente m (frm, liter)
it's for a presentes para (un) regalo
she gave me the book as a presentme regaló el libro
it was a present from Dadera un regalo de papá
to give sb a presenthacer un regalo a algn
to make sb a present of sthregalar algo a algn (fig) → dar algo a algn medio regalado, servir algo a algn en bandeja
see also birthday, Christmas, wedding
3 [prɪˈzent]
1. (= give)
1.1. [+ prize, award] → entregar, hacer entrega de
to present sth to sbentregar algo a algn, hacer entrega de algo a algn
they have presented a petition to Parliamenthan hecho entrega de or han presentado una petición al parlamento
1.2. [+ gift] to present sb with sth; present sth to sbregalar algo a algn, obsequiar a algn con algo (more frm), obsequiar algo a algn (LAm)
2. (= introduce) → presentar
may I present Miss Clark?; allow me to present Miss Clark (frm) → permítame presentarle a or le presento a la Srta. Clark
it gives me great pleasure to presentes para mí un honor or placer presentarles a ...
he presented Jane to his motherpresentó a Jane a su madre
to be presented at court (Brit) (Jur) → ser presentado en la corte
3. (= offer formally)
to present one's apologies (to sb)presentar sus excusas (ante algn)
to present one's compliments (to sb)presentar or ofrecer sus saludos (a algn)
to present one's credentials (to sb) [diplomat] → presentar sus credenciales (ante algn)
4. (= show) [+ documents, tickets] → presentar, mostrar
5. (= put forward, communicate) [+ report, proposal, evidence] → presentar; [+ case, argument] → exponer (Parl) [+ bill] → presentar
figures can be presented in many wayshay muchas maneras de presentar las cifras
the party has to present a more professional imageel partido debe presentar or proyectar una imagen más profesional
she presented her plan to the meetingexpuso su proyecto a la reunión
6. (= pose) [+ challenge] → representar; [+ opportunity] → presentar, ofrecer; [+ sight] → ofrecer
if you are old, getting fit can present a challengesi es usted mayor, ponerse en forma puede representar un reto
the bay presents a magnificent sightla bahía ofrece una vista maravillosa
the boy presents a problemel chico nos plantea un problema
the patrol presented an easy targetla patrulla era un blanco fácil
7. (= provide, confront) to present sb with sth: the author presents us with a vivid chronicle of contemporary Americael autor nos brinda or ofrece una vívida crónica de la América contemporánea
she bought a new car and presented me with the billse compró un coche nuevo y me pasó la factura
to present sb with a daughter/son (frm, hum) → ofrecer a algn una hija/un hijo
8. (= represent, portray) → presentar
the report presents her in a favourable lightel informe presenta una imagen favorable de ella
9. (Comm) (= tender, submit) [+ bill] → presentar, pasar; [+ cheque] → presentar
the cheque was presented for payment on 24thel cheque se presentó para el cobro el día 24
10. (Rad, TV) [+ programme] → presentar (Theat) [+ play] → presentar, ofrecer el montaje de (Art) [+ exhibition] → exponer, presentar
presenting Garbo as Mimicon Garbo en el papel de Mimi
11. (Mil) to present armspresentar las armas
present arms!¡presenten armas!
12. to present o.s [person] → presentarse
how you present yourself is extremely importantla manera de presentarse es muy importante
to present o.s. as sth he presents himself as a moderate, but he's notse define a sí mismo como un moderado, pero no lo es
she's thinking of presenting herself as a candidateestá pensando en presentarse como candidata
to present o.s. for examinationpresentarse a (un) examen
to present o.s. for (an) interviewpresentarse a una entrevista
13. to present itself [opportunity, problem] → surgir, presentarse
a problem has presented itselfha surgido or se ha presentado un problema
B. VI (Med) to present with sth [patient] → presentarse con algo
to present with or as sth [condition] → presentarse en forma de algo
(= current) → actuel(le)
the present situation → la situation actuelle
in the present day → aujourd'hui
to the present day → jusqu'à aujourd'hui
of the present day → d'aujourd'hui
for the present day → pour aujourd'hui
(= in attendance) → présent(e)
The whole family was present → Toute la famille était présente.
There was a photographer present → Un photographe était présent.
to be present at → être présent à
Nearly 85% of men are present at the birth of their children → Presque 85% des hommes sont présents à la naissance de leur enfant.
He wasn't present at the meeting → Il n'était pas présent à la réunion.
those present → les présents
(= in existence) → présent(e)
to be present in sth → être présent dans qch
this form of vitamin D is naturally present in breast milk → cette forme de vitamine D est naturellement présente dans le lait maternel
(= gift) → cadeau m
I'm going to buy a present for my nephew → Je vais acheter un cadeau pour mon neveu.
to give sb a present → offrir un cadeau à qn
(= present time) → présent m
to live in the present → vivre dans le présent
at present → en ce moment
up to the present → jusqu'à présent
for the present → pour l'instant
there's no time like the present! → pourquoi attendre?
(also present tense) → présent m
[prɪˈzɛnt] vt
(= give formally) [+ prizes, awards] → présenter
to present sb with sth [+ award, medal] → présenter qch à qn; [+ gift] → offrir qch à qn; [+ fact]
We were presented with a fait accompli → Nous nous trouvions en face d'un fait accompli.
to present sth to sb [+ prize, award] → présenter qch à qn
(= submit) [+ document, plan, proposal] → présenter
You will have to present your findings to the board → Vous devrez présenter vos résultats au conseil.
(= set out) [+ essay, information] → présenter
Information can be presented in many ways → L'information peut être présentée de nombreuses manières.
(= pose) [+ difficulty, problem, threat, challenge] → présenter
(= provide) [+ opportunity] → offrir
to present itself → se présenter
if the opportunity presents itself → si l'occasion se présente
(= put across) [+ person, event, image] → présenter
Her lawyer wanted to present her in the most favourable light → Son avocat voulait la présenter sous le jour le plus favorable.
to present sth as sth → présenter qch comme qch
The government has presented these changes as major reforms → Le gouvernement a présenté ces changements comme des réformes majeures.
to present o.s. as sth → se présenter comme qch
(= introduce) [+ person] → présenter
to present sb to sb → présenter qn à qn
(mainly British) (= host) [+ TV programme, radio programme] → présenter
(= put on) [+ show, play, new production] → présenter
to present o.s. (in court, for interview, at police station)se présenter
(MILITARY) to present arms → présenter les armes
Present arms! → Présentez armes!
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(= in attendance)anwesend; to be presentanwesend sein; he was ever present in her thoughtser war in ihren Gedanken immer gegenwärtig; to be present at somethingbei etw (anwesend) sein; present company exceptedAnwesende ausgenommen; all those presentalle Anwesenden; all present and correctalle anwesend
(= existing in sth)vorhanden; gases present in the atmospherein der Atmosphäre vorhandene Gase; carbon is present in organic matterKohlenstoff ist in organischen Stoffen enthalten; a quality present in all great meneine Eigenschaft, die man bei allen großen Männern findet
at the present timegegenwärtig, derzeitig, augenblicklich; year, season etclaufend; centurygegenwärtig, jetzig; (= at the present moment or time)zum gegenwärtigen or jetzigen Zeitpunkt; the present day (= nowadays)heutzutage; of the present dayheutig, modern; till or to or until the present daybis zum heutigen Tag, bis auf den heutigen Tag; in the present circumstancesunter den gegenwärtigen or gegebenen Umständen; in the present caseim vorliegenden Fall; the present writer (form)der Autor des hier vorliegenden Werkes
(Gram) in the present tensein der Gegenwart, im Präsens; present participlePartizip ntPräsens, Mittelwort ntder Gegenwart; present perfect (tense)zweite Vergangenheit, Perfekt nt
Gegenwart f; at presentzur Zeit, im Moment or Augenblick, derzeit; up to the presentbislang, bis jetzt; there’s no time like the present (prov) → was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen (Prov); to live for the presentganz in der Gegenwart or im Hier und Heute leben; that will be all for the presentdas ist vorläufig or einstweilen alles
(Gram) → Gegenwart f, → Präsens nt; present continuous/simpleerweitertes/einfaches Präsens, aktuelles/generelles Präsens
n (= gift)Geschenk nt; to make somebody a present of somethingjdm etw schenken (also fig), → jdm etw zum Geschenk machen (form); I got it or was given it as a presentdas habe ich geschenkt bekommen
(= hand over formally) medal, prize etcübergeben, überreichen; (= give as a gift) art collection, book etcschenken, zum Geschenk machen (form); to present somebody with something, to present something to somebodyjdm etw übergeben or überreichen; (as a gift) → jdm etw schenken; they presented us with a hefty billsie präsentierten or überreichten uns (dat)eine gesalzene Rechnung; she presented him with a sonsie schenkte ihm einen Sohn
(= put forward)vorlegen; cheque (for payment) → präsentieren; proofvorlegen, erbringen (of sth für etw); proposalvorlegen, unterbreiten; she asked me to present her apologies/compliments (form)sie bat mich, ihre Entschuldigung/Komplimente weiterzuleiten; please present my apologies to your mother (form)bitte entschuldigen Sie mich bei Ihrer Mutter; his report presents the matter in another lightsein Bericht zeigt die Angelegenheit in anderem Licht or stellt die Angelegenheit in anderem Licht dar
(= offer, provide) target, view, opportunitybieten; to present a brave face to the worldsich (dat)nichts anmerken lassen; his action presented us with a problemseine Tat stellte uns vor ein Problem; he presented the appearance of normalitynach außen hin wirkte er ganz normal
(Rad, TV) → präsentieren; (Theat) → zeigen, aufführen; (commentator) → moderieren; presenting, in the blue corner …in der blauen Ecke des Rings
(= introduce)vorstellen; to present Mr X to Miss YHerrn X Fräulein Y (dat)vorstellen; may I present Mr X? (form)erlauben Sie mir, Herrn X vorzustellen (form); to be presented at Courtbei Hof eingeführt werden
(= point) gun etcrichten, zielen (→ at auf +acc); present arms! (Mil) → präsentiert das Gewehr!
vr (opportunity, problem etc) → sich ergeben; how you present yourself is very importantes ist sehr wichtig, wie man sich präsentiert; to present oneself as a candidatesich aufstellen lassen; to present oneself for an examsich zu einer Prüfung anmelden; he was asked to present himself for interviewer wurde gebeten, zu einem Vorstellungsgespräch zu erscheinen; to present oneself at an ideal momentim idealen Augenblick erscheinen
[adj, n ˈprɛznt; vb prɪˈzɛnt]
1. adj
a. (in attendance) → presente
to be present at (gen) → essere presente a (officially) → presenziare a
those present → i presenti
b. (of the moment) → attuale
in the present circumstances → date le circostanze attuali
at the present moment → al momento attuale
its present value → il suo valore attuale
c. (Gram) → presente
2. n
a. (present time) → presente m (Gram) → (tempo) presente m
at present → al momento
for the present → per il momento, per adesso, per ora
up to the present → fino a questo momento, finora
b. (gift) → regalo
I got this watch as a present → questo orologio mi è stato regalato
to make sb a present of sth → regalare qc a qn
3. vt
a. (hand over, gen) → presentare; (prize, certificate) → consegnare; (give as gift) → offrire (in omaggio); (proof, evidence) → fornire (Law) (case) → esporre
to present sb with sth, present sth to sb → fare dono di qc a qn (prize) → consegnare qc a qn
to present arms (Mil) → presentare le armi
to present o.s. for an interview → presentarsi per un colloquio
b. (offer, difficulty, problem, opportunity) → presentare; (features) → offrire
c. (put on, play, concert, film) → dare (TV, Radio) (act as presenter of) → presentare
to present the news (TV, Radio) → leggere le notizie
presenting Jack Nicholson as ... → con Jack Nicholson nella parte di...
d. (frm) (introduce) to present sb to sbpresentare qn a qn
may I present Miss Clark? → permette che le presenti la signorina Clark?
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
(ˈpreznt) adjective
1. being here, or at the place, occasion etc mentioned. My father was present on that occasion; Who else was present at the wedding?; Now that the whole class is present, we can begin the lesson.
2. existing now. the present moment; the present prime minister.
3. (of the tense of a verb) indicating action now. In the sentence `She wants a chocolate', the verb is in the present tense.
ˈpresently adverb
1. soon. He will be here presently.
2. (especially American) at the present time. The manager is presently on holiday.
the present
the time now. Forget the past – think more of the present and the future!
at present
at the present time. He's away from home at present.
for the present
as far as the present time is concerned. You've done enough work for the present.
(priˈzent) verb
1. to give, especially formally or ceremonially. The child presented a bunch of flowers to the Queen; He was presented with a gold watch when he retired.
2. to introduce. May I present my wife (to you)?
3. to arrange the production of (a play, film etc). The Elizabethan Theatre Company presents `Hamlet', by William Shakespeare.
4. to offer (ideas etc) for consideration, or (a problem etc) for solving. She presents (=expresses) her ideas very clearly; The situation presents a problem.
5. to bring (oneself); to appear. He presented himself at the dinner table half an hour late.
preˈsenter noun
preˈsentable adjective
suitable to be seen, introduced etc. You don't look very presentable in those clothes.
ˌpresenˈtation (pre-) noun
1. the act of presenting. the presentation of the prizes; the presentation of a new play; (also adjective) a presentation ceremony; a presentation gold watch.
2. the manner in which written work etc is presented or set out. Try to improve the presentation of your work.
3. a performance, or set of repeated performances, of a play, opera etc. This is the best presentation of `Macbeth' that I've ever seen.
present arms
to hold a rifle upright in front of one, as a salute.
(ˈpreznt) noun
a gift. a wedding present; birthday presents.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
حَاضِر, هَدِيَّة, يَقْدُم dárek, předat, přítomný, současnost gave, nutiden, præsentere, tilstedeværende anwesend, Gegenwart, Geschenk, überreichen δώρο, παρόν, παρουσιάζω, παρών presentar, presente, regalo esitellä, lahja, läsnäoleva, nykyhetki cadeau, présent, présenter dar, predstaviti, prisutan, sadašnjost presentare, presente, regalo プレゼント, 居る, 現在, 紹介する 선물, 제출하다, 참석한, 현재 aanwezig, cadeau, heden, presenteren introdusere, nåtid, presang, til stede obecny, prezent, przedstawić, teraźniejszość apresentar, presente дарить, подарок, присутствующий, текущий момент närvarande, nutid, present, presentera ให้, ของขวัญ, ปรากฏตัว, ปัจจุบัน armağan, şu an, tanıştırmak, var có mặt, hiện tại, quà, trao tặng 授予, 现在, 现在的, 礼物
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
n. [gift] regalo, obsequio;
gr. tiempo presente;
at ___actualmente;
adv. ahora, actualmente;
to be ___asistir, estar presente.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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Of things themselves some are predicable of a subject, and are never present in a subject.
The response of an organism to a given stimulus is very often dependent upon the past history of the organism, and not merely upon the stimulus and the HITHERTO DISCOVERABLE present state of the organism.
The now temperate regions of the United States would likewise be covered by arctic plants and animals, and these would be nearly the same with those of Europe; for the present circumpolar inhabitants, which we suppose to have everywhere travelled southward, are remarkably uniform round the world.
Such a study of Literature as that for which the present book is designed includes two purposes, contributing to a common end.
"Why, the new Government Bakery was opened only last week, and I gave orders to sell the bread at cost-price during the present scarcity!
This doctrine, I am afraid, is at present carried much too far: for why should writing differ so much from all other arts?
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So Far the Kenobi Series Is on Track, Canceled, and Ahead of Schedule?
Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
It seemed like, out of nowhere, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series was canceled. In an “exclusive” from Fandomwire, it seems as if there were differences that separated Ewan McGregor from the project. The problem is that there is literally no source for this. The unnamed source also, apparently, came back to them to say that it was just delayed and McGregor was still attached. None of which had a backing other than saying the “unnamed Disney source” said so.
The thing is: Why do we do this? Why jump at the moment of ruining something for fans? Sure, they may have had the source and sweet intention of just letting fans know that the Kenobi series would be no more but Twitter then ran with it and continued to share the story around and talk about the cancelation as if Ewan McGregor stood on a stage and said he was done for us all to hear.
This isn’t the first time something like this happened, it just circulated about the Hawkeye series as well because there, for some reason, seems to be a need to cancel these highly anticipated Disney+ shows. Maybe it’s because (especially with the Obi-Wan Kenobi series) there is a highly anticipated want for it. Since the conclusion of the prequels, many of us wanted to see Ewan McGregor back as Obi-Wan Kenobi and he also seemed to love the idea.
It goes back to the idea that no news is a bad sign. Which, isn’t the case. Especially since from what I’ve seen circulating on the internet, the series is completely written. So the idea alone that Ewan McGregor would leave a completely written series over “creative differences” doesn’t make any sense. While the series is still a bit of a mystery to us all, it isn’t going to be a constant news source until we get closer to the actual release of it.
So, let’s maybe just wait until then to start worrying about it. I will say, the tweets about the “cancellation” were pretty good though.
Until there is an official statement from Disney and LucasFilm or until Ewan McGregor looks me dead in my eyes and tells me he is taking the Kenobi series from my cold, dead hands, I’m going to keep on waiting for the series to hit the streaming platform.
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May 27: Jiakun ZHENG's PhD Defense
May 27, 2020 Research
Jiakun ZHENG will defend his thesis on « Essais sur l’Economie Comportementale et la Prise de Décision en Situation d’Incertitude », next wednesday 27 at 1.PM via Zoom meeting
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This dissertation consists of three chapters, which have a unified theme on behavioral economics and decision making under risk and uncertainty. In all the three chapters, I have incorporated psychology such as cognitive bias, social preferences and emotions into economics, and have studied their implications in insurance and risk management. I have also conducted monetary-incentivized laboratory experiments to provide evidence for the models I have built. The main takeaways from this long-term research plan are that human decision making is far more complex than what traditional economics assume and it thus becomes crucial to model this complexity into economics in order to answer some policy-relevant questions. Overall, I demonstrate that this type of interdisciplinary research can deepen our understanding of human behaviors and improve the design and implementation of public policies. Below, I elaborate briefly on what are the research questions I ask in each chapter and what are the main findings.
In the first chapter, I study insurance decisions when the policyholder evaluates insurance not only as a hedging instrument but also as a gamble in isolation due to narrow framing. I show that due to aversion to risk on the net insurance payoff, i.e., insurance indemnity minus insurance premium, narrow framing reduces insurance demand in the form of both coinsurance and deductible insurance. This helps explaining the observed low demand for health and disaster insurance. I also show that the optimal insurance contract involves a deductible and the coinsurance of losses above the deductible when transaction costs depend on the actuarial value of the policy. In an incentivized lab experiment, I document substantial effects of narrow framing on hedging. Estimating a structural model, I find that people give a weight of 43% to the utility from evaluating insurance in isolation and 57% to the hedging value of the contract. I also find that individuals with lower cognitive abilities and lower demand from insurance place a significantly higher weight on the evaluation of insurance in isolation.
In the second chapter, my coauthors Hélène Couprie, Astrid Hopfensitz and I ask the question about how social preferences affect group risk taking. Risk is rarely an individual phenomenon and often shared in groups. In the case of informal insurance
situations, individual risk preferences have to face the risk preferences of the group. We study for the case of spouses, how individual versus household risk preferences interact in an experimental paradigm. 202 cohabiting spouses (101 couples) participated in a controlled experimental risk-taking task. We focus on a household risk task, in which spouses face the choice between an option in which risk is correlated (high household risk, low inequality among spouses) and an option allowing for hedging (low household risk, high inequality among spouses). We show that spouses are mainly influenced by household risk and do not react to inequality as long as payoffs are symmetric. However, when payoffs become asymmetric, because one of the spouses’ risk is reduced, we observe a change in preferences. Specifically, our results suggest that households put a higher weight on men’s individual risks. We further observe that married couples put a higher weight on expected utilities from joint household payoffs.
In the last chapter, I examine the impact of anticipated regret on risk management. Prevention decisions that reduce individuals’ health risks are important, generally irreversible, and particularly difficult since they imply a trade-off between two important attributes: the safety and its cost. All those features make regret more likely to be anticipated. Here, I study the willingness to pay for reductions in health risks within a framework of anticipated regret. I show that with other things being equal, an individual who is disproportionately averse to large regrets has a higher willingness to pay than a standard expected utility individual. This notion of regret aversion has been shown to be able to explain many decision patterns which violate standard expected utility theory. Moreover, the effect of regret aversion on willingness to pay can be interpreted as if the regret averse individual overweighs risk reductions due to prevention, i.e., probability overweighting effect. I further discuss how the resolution of uncertainty may affect the regret averse individual’s willingness to pay.
To summarize, this dissertation shows that incorporating psychology into economics can improve our understanding of risk behaviors and can have vast implications in policy making. With wide adoption of experimental methods in economics, existing theories (or conventional wisdom) would be tested and possibly be rejected. Sometimes, new and unexpected findings could also be discovered from experimentation. It therefore becomes important for economists to come up with more realistic models so that we can either make better predictions or conduct more accurate welfare evaluation. I believe that more future work in these directions, both empirical and theoretical, is certainly desirable, and I also expect myself to continue this research plan in the coming years. | <urn:uuid:6b9882bf-7680-4086-9ebe-d238236ffa01> | https://www.tse-fr.eu/may-27-jiakun-zhengs-phd-defense | en | 0.932776 | 0.077324 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Ancient Cities, Lasting Truths
A recent visit to western Turkey has brought many things back to mind, created new impressions, and reinforced the value of learning about people in their environment.
The Republic of Turkey has been in the news because of its shared border with Syria and the steady flow of refugees from that war-torn land. A Muslim society ruled by a conservative government, Turkey is a member of NATO. Its economy makes it an important trading nation, its major partners being Germany, Russia, Iraq, Iran, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, France, China and the United Arab Emirates.
Yet Turkey is also an ancient nation with Hittite, Hurrian, Phrygian, Lydian, Lycian and Carian lines of descent. Its Greek and Roman periods are familiar from the many archaeological sites visitors frequent. The reason for my recent journey was to revisit the locations of the seven churches of the book of Revelation.
In the first century, the best-known ancient city in the Roman province of Asia was Ephesus, with a population usually estimated at about 250,000. Today, as a tentative World Heritage site, it is still high on the list of places to visit. In Roman times it was also a place to visit, because it housed one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis. The goddess was named Lady, Savior, Queen of Heaven and Queen of the Cosmos.
In the city’s theater, still extant today and seating 20–24,000, a riotous gathering of artisans opposed the apostle Pauls teaching about idols made with hands (Acts 19). Fearful for his safety, his city-leader friends insisted that he not enter the theater to plead his case. Wisely, he did not and lived to work in other places.
About 80 miles north of Ephesus is the impressive Greco-Roman city of Pergamos (modern-day Bergama). The city was famed for its ancient library and center of healing arts; its acropolis rises over the surrounding countryside and is dominated by the remains of the Altar of Zeus and the Temple of Trajan. When John wrote Revelation, most of these structures were visible. His reference to “Satan’s throne” may mean the 24-7 pagan altar, or the city as a center of Roman persecution of those who refused to worship the emperor.
About 140 miles to the southeast of Bergama are the ruins of Laodicea, famed in the first century for superb black wool, eye salve, banking and commerce. Over the past decade, many discoveries have been made about the wealthy city, including streets, temples, houses and gateways. With reconstruction in progress, one can imagine that one day the archaeological site may rival the one at Ephesus.
Ecclesiastes 1:9, New International Version
But why visit these dusty places except as historical curiosities? The 80 or so people who accompanied me on the recent journey enthused about it for several reasons. Culturally, it was a mind-expanding experience to come to appreciate a high culture in a moderate Islamic setting, to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of a people with a long history. Historically, it put human endeavor in a valuable context. Human beings have had the same stresses and strains, struggles and accomplishments for thousands of years (no room for arrogance about 21st-century life!). Biblically, the setting and lessons of the seven church congregations to which John wrote deliver a powerful reminder that values are worth holding on to, and that compromise never brings lasting reward. Only by overcoming human nature’s downward drag will we attain life forever (see Revelation 2 and 3). | <urn:uuid:92d6391e-2dcb-4209-ac8f-787c2aec6b70> | https://www.vision.org/insight-lessons-learned-from-seven-churches-of-revelation-43 | en | 0.960101 | 0.071847 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
The Bachelor Episode 5 Recap *SPOILERS*
Last week’s episode was super annoying. After a group date of blood sweat and tears, the rose went to Alayah…..who was already voted off. I was almost positive one of these girls was gonna walk right out before the rose ceremony even happened.
The episode started with all of the girls sitting together and just verbally annihilating Alayah right to her face. At first, I honestly couldn’t tell if they were talking to her or about her because they were a bunch of savages. Next thing ya know, Peter swoops on in to steal her away to chat. He says he doesn’t care about what anyone else says because he knows she has an amazing heart (lie) and that she’s a good person (lie) and that they had such a strong connection but that everything that’s happened is just too much (truth). Finally, he realizes what a mistake it was bringing Alayah back for literally everyone involved and decided to send her home….again. We’re 5 weeks in and Pilot Pete has really done nothing but make-out with every contestant and feed into the constant drama they’ve caused. He’s taken barely any time to actually get to know any of these girls so who the heck cares who goes home at this point? I feel like the only actual connections right now are with Madison because she’s met his entire family already, Kelley because they’ve obviously hooked up before coming onto the show, and Hannah Ann because she just doesn’t ever go away.
None of the other girls have any idea about what’s going on and then all of a sudden Peter and Alayah walk out hand in hand. They’re all sitting on the couch just flabbergasted going “the disrespect” and little to they know he’s actually walking her out because she just got sent home….again. I mean really, any ounce of confidence that Alayah had left has just gotta be gone. Can you imagine going onto a dating show, having everyone in the house turn against you, getting sent home, getting brought back, just to literally get sent home again? I know I kind of declared Alayah my enemy but honestly…I might have to take that back because I kind of feel bad for her now. I don’t get genuine vibes from her but we also barely got to know her so how do we know she didn’t just get a bad edit? I feel like she flew under the radar until the episode that just demolished her…the first one that is. You can tell the girls finally realize she’s going home when their moods completely turn around. All of a sudden they just "hope Peter’s making the right decision" as if that’s something they even care about. What they care about is getting rid of Alayah, and they did. I’m sure Victoria P. is especially happy since Alayah was making her look real bad. I’m annoyed Victoria P is all like “I wanna trust him but I still have questions.” I’m sorry, ma’am… you have questions? I have questions. I wanna know how the heck she has completely lied about the entire Alayah situation and gotten away with it??? How do we know what else this girl has been lying about?? Probably everything! And now she has the audacity to say that she wants to trust him, and that she has questions???? I don’t like it. It’s not even 10 minutes into this episode and I already feel like it’s at the end. All this drama is exhausting and I forgot there hasn’t even been a rose ceremony yet. This cocktail hour quickly turns into the Pilot Pete Apology Tour I mean, the guy individually apologized to everyone and of course, had to sneak in a few make-outs. Now that we’re 7 hours(15 minutes) into this episode, it’s finally time for the rose ceremony. There’s 15 girls but only 12 will remain. Unfortunately for Deandra, Savannah, and Kiarra, they didn’t make the cut. When Peter does his toasts, he informs the ladies that they’re taking their journey international, Costa Rica to be exact. The reaction is much better than when they found out they were going to Cleveland, Ohio, that’s for sure.
Peter shows up to take Sydney on a one on one but first, has to tell everyone what happens to his head. He tells the girls he got into a fight with a puma and they literally all believed him at first. Then we get the real story...and it's no puma fight. Peter was on the back of a golf cart and smashed his head into the roof, then his head bounced off the roof and into the glass that was in his hand, splitting his head open and requiring 22 stitches. Glad Pete's okay...but that video of it happening was gold.
His one on one with Sydney starts with a nice helicopter ride over Costa Rica. They land in the middle of no where to a cute little picnic. Peter keeps telling her how much he appreciates her honesty and the way she looks out for him, AKA the way she tears everyone else down for her own personal gain. When they talk about their families, Sydney tells Peter that she speaks Spanish and then Peter says something in Spanish and you can tell Sydney just lied straight through her teeth and has absolutely no idea what he says. That's not the only thing Sydney lies about. She tells Peter her sob story about how she was bullied so badly in high school that she didn't go to her homecoming or prom. She also says she ate lunch in a bathroom stall everyday which is obviously a lie because that only happens in movies. They say the devils works hard, but Bachelor Nation works harder. It didn't take long for people who went to High School with Sydney to start posting photos from their yearbook on Twitter...
Now I could be wrong, but that doesn't look like someone who eats lunch in the bathroom every day. That looks like someone that probably made other people eat lunch in the bathroom every day. It's funny how Sydney was so quick to call Alayah fake but isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? Sydney...fake. Not a fan. There really isn't much more to their date other than dinner by the pool and a violent make-out session all over the place. With how steamy things were getting, something tells me there was a lot more going on there that wasn't in the cameras view.
Back at the house Kelsey is just losing it. She is so emotional and cannot stop crying at the thought of Peter dating other women. Someone needs to remind this girl what show she's on. Tammy tries to calm her down which really only makes things worse. Tammy feels like it's now her responsibility to tell Peter how crazy Kelsey is when he's not there. She's not wrong, but that's also just not her place and just ends up backfiring on her.
Now for the group date, which is a photo shoot for Cosmopolitan. They girls pose in pairs and then in groups with Peter and things are just weird. I can't stop thinking about how uncomfortable I would be in this situation. The editor chooses one girl that stood out to her, who gets to be on the cover with Peter and she chooses Victoria F. Too bad that Victoria F. has a pretty shady past, which ultimately resulted in the editor choosing to not ever use her on the cover. Group dates are all the same. There's very little talking, and a whole lot of making out. Kelsey does do some talking, and she tells Peter how hard it's been for her since her one on one in Ohio. Again, someone remind Kelsey what show she is on. Did she not realize Peter was going to have like 20 girlfriends at once??? After her little champagne fiasco, she should just be happy she hasn't gotten sent home yet. You can tell Tammy is feeling insecure and is starting to find any way to immerse herself into the drama to be noticed. I'm disappointed in Tammy. I was really rooting for her and loved that she didn't seem to care about any of the drama. Next thing ya know, she's the one causing it all. She goes to Peter and tells him Kelsey was having a mental break down and that she basically thinks she has a drinking problem. Not a good look Tammy, not a good look. Even more annoying than Tammy starting more drama, Peter feeding into it. This guys is way too easily persuaded. Maybe if he talked to these girls instead of just making out with them, he'd be able to form his own opinion without depending on the thoughts of others. Peter obviously brings this up to Kelsey which makes matters even worse. Kelsey goes back to the group to cry some more and everyone basically tells her that they think she's too emotional which just makes her more emotional.
The following day is Peter's one on one with Kelley. I said it before and I'll say it again, Kelley is way too normal to be on this show. You can tell she feels like she doesn't fit in with the other girls which is why she just tends to hide in the corner at times. Peter tells her that he doesn't feel like she puts in any effort and she doesn't disagree. She says she doesn't understand why he keeps rewarding the drama and makes her feel like maybe he isn't even ready for any of this, which is a valid point. Peter doesn't even realize that all of the time he spends catering to the drama is time taken away from girls who actually want to get to know him. Ultimately, Kelley must've told him exactly what he wanted to hear because she does get the rose.
The following day you see Tammy talking to some of the other girls about Kelsey, yet again. Meanwhile, Kelsey is getting ready to secretly meet up with Peter which I don't like. If these producers just allowed anyone to go meet up with Peter when ever they felt like it, it would defeat the purpose of the whole show. Kelsey felt like she needed to clear her name to Peter, which Peter really didn't seem to care about. He reassures Kelsey that she has nothing to worry about which just goes to show you that he really doesn't know her at all. She throws Tammy right under the bus, saying that Tammy is telling everyone she has a drug an alcohol problem. I did hear her talk about the drinking several times, but I don't recall Tammy ever saying anything about drugs. Another thing that's annoying about this whole situation is that Peter randomly finds a rose to give her. Does this guy have any rules???? IT'S NOT EVEN A ROSE CEREMONY AND SHE'S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. Kelsey walks back to the house all smiles to awkwardly tell everyone where she just was. To say the other girls weren't thrilled would be an understatement.
Everyone is ready for the cocktail party, just to have Chris Harrison rain on their parade. He comes to inform everyone that Peter has the clarity he needed and decided to just go right into the rose ceremony. I don't know what about this news made Mykenna's tongue fall out of her mouth, but I just want her to stop licking her lips. I want to cover my eyes and have someone tell me when it's over because it's weird. Speaking of Mykenna, I don't think there's been 1 episode that she hasn't cried in. She seems like a nice girl but she annoys me. I just feel like she's too young and naive to be there anymore and I wouldn't mind seeing her get the boot. She's always panicking about Peter not "knowing her heart" because she hasn't gotten time with him and yet, she really does nothing to get that time. Hearing that there's no cocktail party send these women into an absolute frenzy. Tammy starts calling out Kelsey, Kelsey starts calling out Tammy, Lexie and Sydney start calling out Tammy, and it's all just a mess. I wish Sydney would just mind her own business and keep her mouth shut. She seems to be the common denominator in majority of the drama and I'm sick of her.
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The recent market meltdown prompted me to re-organise what I classify as emergency cash and war-chest and better fencing of cash and cash equivalents. This comes about as I increased my emergency cash from 3 months of expenses to 12 months. By doing so, I'll fence up more cash that I can't touch for investment, hence the exercise to really look into this.
I have various issues of Singapore savings bonds (SSB), as well as Frasers 3.65% bond and Azalea bond. I decided to classify those under emergency cash. The SSB can be redeemed at par value, and while the two bonds that I held had their prices falling from their highs (Frasers went below par even), I think they are still safe storage of emergency cash. Unlikely for them to do a Hyflux on me, again.
After accounting for the switch in portfolio counters, I realised I've spent about 15% of my war-chest in a week or two of buying. In this kind of climate, you can buy something and have it fall 10% the following day or so. Crazy times. How does one cope with this? Just be 'delusional', in the sense that you keep thinking the market will return to its formal glory, that this will all pass eventually, that the enterprising human spirit will somehow get you over this and that a few years down the road you'll be wondering why you are even fussing over this minor hump on the road.
I think I've experienced a few crashes in my investing journey so this is not going to be any different. The first few I've 'wasted' it by not being emotionally steady, and/or didn't have enough cash, so I'm determined to make the best out of this. I've some support groups - people who share the same philosophy in money management - so they helped a lot to allay whatever fears in buying up while others are fleeing. Grateful for that. I've seen enough people who made it out of market crashes like this, emerging from the ashes of their portfolio with their net-worth doubled or tripled, to believe in it, so I'll try my best to emulate them.
That said, hope still has to be tempered with ground-level reality and practicality. I must survive all these in order to have a chance to thrive later when all these are over. The top 2 priorities are really health and job security. If that fails, all else fails.
How to spend the remaining war-chest? I think the problem can be split into how much and how long. STI has fallen about 27% from the last peak to the last close, while SP500 is down 20% and HSI about 28% down. Most often, crashes recover after about 30% down. Rarely does it do a 50 to 60% crash and then once in a lifetime, you might see a more than 85% crash. I think based on past history, we should spend the bulk of our war chest preparing for the 30% to 50% crash, rather than the world-changing 85% crash. I think when it comes to that, nobody is really prepared for that. If that comes, there will be more things to worry about survival than about thriving. That should settle the part about how much.
How long then? History shows that it can take 1 to 3 yrs for the bear market to play out from peak to trough. Counting the last peak for STI to be in May 2018, we're about slightly less than 2 yrs right now in Mar 2020. Perhaps it'll end by 2021, in about a year's time. That correlates to what PM Lee said about how long the coronavirus will play out. I wouldn't take it so literally to be exactly 1 year, but that should give a helicopter view of how fast to deploy.
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It might sound more comfortable, but we guarantee that this is not the best way to learn a language. If you’re serious about gaining any level of fluency or mastery, then you have to be brave and go with a small class group. A 1-to-1 teaching environment is even better. There are a few good reasons why!
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Language learning is about taking vocabulary, sentence structure, idioms and other linguistic elements that you learn in theory, and putting them into practice. In a big class, you’ll have almost no opportunity to say anything meaningful. Either you’ll be part of a big group chant repeating something back to the teacher, or you’ll get but one or two tiny chances to repeat words or sentences for the teacher to hear. Even worse, you’ll have almost no opportunity to practice proper conversation with people of native level. A small class size, or 1-to-1 learning environment, solves this problem.
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Let’s face facts. A big class is noisy. Even the general hum of background noise is very off-putting when you’re trying to get your head around something as tricky as a second language. Smaller or 1-to-1 classes offer a peaceful environment in which you can put your full concentration into your work.
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If you’ve ever tried your hand at teaching, you’ll know that working with a smaller class is a lot easier. Larger classes require a lot more energy to manage, and that can detract from the quality of teaching. If you want a teacher who can throw all their energy into their explanations and classroom activities, then smaller classes are the only way to go.
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NSW Enquiry: Peter Fox’s Evidence (Or: They Shoot Messengers, Don’t They?)
Pictured above: New South Wales Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC (Image source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/17030071/priest-was-warned-of-abuse-investigation-inquiry/)
Detective Chief Inspector Fox has many enemies, even within the NSW police force.
In the past two days, he has given evidence to the NSW enquiry into clerical child sexual abuse within the Maitland-Newcastle diocese. Clearly, he was being muzzled by superior officers for some reason. To Mr. Fox, it was because they wanted to protect the Catholic Church. He referred to a “catholic mafia.”
To the police, he was a rogue cop who didn’t follow orders. In particular, those orders were to get off the case, and not to have any further contact with a local journalist who had provided much information from her discussions with victims.
Over the next few days, a string of senior police officers are due to front the enquiry. It can be expected that they will attempt to paint a negative picture of both Mr. Fox and the journalist. This is par for the course in such matters involving whistle-blowers. They always shoot the messenger. In this case, they may miss their mark.
A rogue cop is not one who resorts to the media to get justice for the victims. A rogue cop is the one in Victoria who apparently has recently passed on secret police files containing the identities of undercover police operatives to the Hells Angels bikie gang. In the first example, police are embarrassed. In the second example, police are endangered. The public can tell the difference.
Voices must be raised. It is incumbent on all who believe in justice for the victims not to let the Catholic Church and the culpable people within the NSW police department get away with shooting the messenger.
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Snoring: A Common Problem For Many Adults
What Causes Snoring?
Snoring occurs in the throat area when the soft tissue structures of your upper airway collapse onto themselves and vibrate against each other as air passes through them; the result is the sound known as snoring. If you have large tonsils, a long, soft palate, a large tongue, a large uvula, or excess fat deposits in your throat area, they, too, can contribute to your airway being narrowed causing you to snore.
Other factors that can lead to an obstructed or narrowed airway for the chronic snorer are
Doctors have also linked chronic snoring to sleep apnea, a serious condition that causes long interruptions of sleep and high blood pressure. Sleep apnea may also increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Why Do People Snore?
The Snoring Sound
Most snoring usually falls between 50 and 80 decibels. To put this in perspective, a normal conversation is around 60db, a vacuum cleaner 70db, and anything above 90db, such as a power lawn mower has the potential to cause ear damage after prolonged exposure. The loudest recorded snore was at 111 db! That is literally the volume of a freight train.
Why is snoring dangerous?
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Should Christians call themselves Universalists?—Robin Parry
Here is the 3-minute video clip and transcript of Robin Parry‘s response to the question of whether Christians should call themselves “Universalists”? This was raised at Gospel Conversations’ Hope & Hell Conference.
As a case in point, James Relly—an eighteenth-century preacher in London—refused to call himself a “universalist”. He hated the word. So did John Murray—the pastor of the very first American Universalist Church and a follower of Relly. They hated the word “universalism” because it’s not in the Bible. Relly would always say, “I’m not a Universalist.” He thought everyone would be saved but he wouldn’t call himself a “Universalist” because it’s not a biblical word.
I don’t have that kind of aversion. I’m quite happy to use words that aren’t biblical words if it’s explaining a biblical concept. For example, “Trinity” is not a biblical word but I think it is a way of conceptualizing a biblical idea.
However, there are issues here. For example, TF Torrance—a very well-known 20th century Scottish Presbyterian Reformed theologian and a really fabulous theologian—was really opposed to “universalism”. He hated the term but it was the “ism” thing that he really didn’t like—and he’s not alone in this. I’m putting words in his mouth here but I think it felt to him like you’re trying to squeeze God into some preordained system—that God has to fit… It’s the connotations of “isms” that he didn’t like. I think that he didn’t think you could know or say whether God would save everyone or not. Maybe everyone would be saved but maybe they won’t—we can’t say. So he’s not a Universalist as such but I think his theology would be very sympathetic to universalism properly construed—definitely if you drop the term “universalism.”
Some eighteenth-century universalists didn’t talk about it like that. Some of them would talk about “universal restoration” and they’d use other phrases like, “we believe in the restoration”, “we believe in the restoration of all things.” I quite like that, in fact, the very first edition of these slides didn’t have “Universalism.” It just takes more space. Saying you’re a “universal restorationist” or something, just takes longer to say so I just think, “Oh, stuff it, I’ll call myself a universalist and just explain what I mean by that.” If you have a problem with the word, I’m very happy to drop it and just say, “I believe that God will save all people through Christ” or “I believe in the restoration of all things through Christ.” It just takes longer to say and it’s clumsy.
So my thought is: if you want to drop it, drop it. There are reasons it might disturb some people. It also has the problem of connotations because people think they know what it means. But on the other hand, that might be a helpful provocation to make them pay attention, “I’m gonna tell you something that’s gonna freak you out—here’s something you think is scary—now let me tell you that it doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means.” It might, in some cases, get people’s attention and serve to focus thought. | <urn:uuid:da13634c-d05d-4c49-8f67-c64df180b8d3> | https://reforminghell.com/tag/tf-torrance/ | en | 0.958381 | 0.049323 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Country music lost a titan, and Dolly Parton lost a friend when Charlie Daniels died on Monday (July 6). Her heart is broken, she says.
The pair of Country Music Hall of Famers go back well over 40 years. They've shared stages and even a song, "Daddy's Old Fiddle," from the Charlie Daniels Band's Deuces album of collaborations from 2007. So many artists have spoken out after the 83-year-old's passing, but Parton's statement speaks to who Daniels was as a person and businessman.
"Well, the devil went down to Georgia, but Charlie went straight to heaven," Parton begins in a note on social media, adding:
My heart, like many millions of others, is broken today to find out that we've lost our dear friend Charlie Daniels. It was such a shock. He was one of the great people in the business and one of the greatest entertainers ever. He will live on in our hearts. Rest in peace, Charlie.
While from different parts of the country and with very different sounds, Parton and Daniels represent an older generation of country star the current generations look up to with reverence. Daniels is universally remembered by those who new him well as being gracious with his time and music. The same is often said about the 74-year-old Parton.
Her message feels familiar, because it was just months ago that she was tributing another friend lost in Kenny Rogers, who died at age 81 in March. His death also caught Parton by surprise, but unlike Daniels, she was aware that Rogers' health was in decline. Daniels died quite suddenly after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.
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United States of America BEFORE THE FEDERAL SERVICE IMPASSES PANEL In the Matter of NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER WALLOPS ISLAND, VIRGINIA and LOCAL 2755, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO Case Nos. 08 FSIP 21 and 08 FSIP 27 DECISION AND ORDER Local 2755, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (Union) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Island, Virginia (Employer) filed separate requests for assistance with the Federal Service Impasses Panel (Panel) to consider a negotiation impasse under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (Statute), 5 U.S.C. § 7119. After investigation of the requests for assistance the Panel consolidated the cases and determined that the dispute, concerning the implementation of a five-tier performance appraisal system, should be resolved through an informal conference with Panel Member Grace Flores-Hughes. The parties were informed that, if a complete settlement were not reached during the informal conference, Member Flores-Hughes would notify the Panel of the status of the dispute. The notification would include, among other things, the final offers of the parties and her recommendations to the Panel for resolving the issues. The parties also were informed that, after considering the entire record, the Panel would resolve the dispute by taking whatever action it deemed appropriate, which could include the issuance of a binding decision. Pursuant to the procedural determination, Member FloresHughes conducted an informal conference with the parties on March 14, 2008, at Wallops Island, Virginia. During the course 2 of the meeting, the parties voluntarily resolved all but one issue. The Panel has now considered the entire record, including the parties’ final offers and supporting statements of position on the one remaining issue, and Member Flores-Hughes’ recommendation for resolving the dispute. BACKGROUND The Employer’s primary mission is to expand knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system and the universe through observations from space. The Union represents approximately 150 professional and non-professional bargainingunit employees who work as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and non-supervisory Wage Grade and Class Act employees. The parties’ collective-bargaining agreement was to have expired in 2005 but has been rolled over for the past 3 years. ISSUES AT IMPASSE The parties disagree over how long to postpone a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) meeting if an employee elects to have a Union representative present and one is not immediately available.1/ POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES 1. The Union’s Position The Union proposes that, “[g]enerally, performance meetings will not be postponed by more than three (3) workdays to accommodate the securing of a Union representative.” This would give the Union representative adequate time to make scheduling arrangements and prepare for discussions regarding the PIP, and allow the Union to brief a replacement steward “on the particulars of the PIP” if necessary. It also protects the employee in the event management postpones and reschedules a meeting on short notice and/or schedules one at the time the assigned Union representative is not available. The Employer, on the other hand, “has not offered any specific instances where attempts to engage the Union in Labor-Management relations at a 1/ The purpose of a PIP is to provide a reasonable opportunity for an employee whose performance has been determined to be unacceptable in one or more critical elements to demonstrate acceptable performance in the critical elements(s) at issue. 3 prescribed time were nullified by the Union’s unavailability to meet.” Finally, it is often difficult to secure a Union representative within 1 workday due to the location of personnel, an understaffed workforce, overtime, change in shifts, mandatory training and other factors relating to work operations. 2. The Employer’s Position The Employer’s counter offer is “[g]enerally, performance meetings will not be postponed by more than one (1) workday to accommodate the securing of a [U]nion representative.” Its proposal provides flexibility in that the 1-workday postponement would be the established expectation but exceptions could be made where appropriate. In this regard, there is a history of Union inflexibility in scheduling meetings that could result in the 3-day postponement becoming the norm, a result that would unduly delay the PIP process. Finally, the Employer’s willingness to allow the Union’s presence during PIP progress review meetings “goes beyond regulatory requirements.” CONCLUSION Having carefully considered the evidence and arguments presented by the parties, we shall order the adoption of the Employer’s final offer to resolve the impasse. PIP-related meetings, among other things, are conducted to discuss with an employee what is needed to improve his or her performance. To be effective they should be non-adversarial and occur without undue delay. In our view, a postponement period of no more than 1 workday to locate a Union representative is reasonable given the purpose of such meetings. As to the Union’s contention that it is often difficult to secure a Union representative within 1 workday, the Employer’s proposal provides the flexibility to increase the postponement period, and we are persuaded that management will do so where warranted. 4 ORDER Pursuant to the authority vested in it by the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, 5 U.S.C. § 7119, and because of the failure of the parties to resolve their dispute during the course of proceedings instituted by the Panel’s regulations, 5 C.F.R. § 2471.6(a)(2), the Federal Service Impasses Panel, under 5 C.F.R. § 2471.11(a) of its regulations, hereby orders the following: The parties shall adopt the Employer’s final offer. By direction of the Panel. H. 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The stories like this are popping up lately, and people are starting to think there might be a chance that Fox News might be end-of-life.
I kind of have a problem with this. Reality has a well-known liberal bias, but I have also noticed of late that liberals (myself included) have a reality bias.
We keep thinking that logical and sane things are the things that are going to happen. But we have a Pumpkin for president, don’t we? Nazis are working at the White House. A Rethuglican body-slammed a reporter and then won his election the NEXT DAY.
Why do we think a bunch of sexual harassment and assault scandals will bring down an organization that prides itself on generating moral panics? I don’t think anything like that will happen. I think they will solidify their troglodyte base just exactly because of these things. Just like the Montana voters who liked that their new congressputz body-slammed a Guardian reporter and broke his left-wing eyeglasses.
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5 companies that represent 'ag improvements' trend
NEXT Trends 2020 Expo West series—a look at "ag improvements," one of the New Hope Network NEXT Data and Insights team's agricultural trends.
Today, we look at five companies that are innovating in the "Ag Improvements" trend within the Agricultural Commitments macro force. Brands that are just entering the agriculture conversation are making discrete one-dimensional commitments in a potential step toward laying the foundation for broader adoption of a whole systems approach.
O.Vine, SmartVine Wine, Diestel Family Turkey Ranch
1. O.Vine
What is it? O.Vine upcycles wine grape skins and seeds to create a wine grape infused water that is light, dry, crisp, low calorie and full of antioxidants.
Innovation: By partnering with the Galil Mountain Winery, O.Vine makes full use of the grapes grown for wine. O.Vine produces alcohol-free wine essence water. O.Vine’s upcycling process captures the taste, aroma, color and antioxidants inside grape skins and seeds after they've been used to make wine.
2. SmartVine Wine
What is it? Wine with added functional ingredients (turmeric, chicory root, etc.) that is food-tribe friendly, glyphosate free and positioned for active lifestyles.
Innovation: The wine is the first certified glyphosate-residue-free wine in the world. It is also free of the more than 72 other chemicals currently allowed in wines. SmartVine Wine also contains ingredients such as turmeric and lemon peel. It boasts a 2 gram carb count, making it weight-loss friendly as well.
3. Diestel Family Turkey Ranch
What is it? The Diestel Family Turkey Ranch raises, processes and distributes natural, non-GMO and certified organic turkeys and turkey products. It offers a full line of deli turkey, smoked and oven roasted whole turkeys, sausages and ground turkey.
Innovation: This family-owned California ranch practices regenerative farming practices emphasizing soil health and water conservation. The ranch raises organic American heirloom birds adapted to the foothills of the Sonora.
4. Isik Organic
What is it? Isik Organic is a Turkey-based processor, packer and exporter of organic dried fruits and nuts and frozen fruits.
Innovation: Isik Organic is Demeter certified. The company also started a project called Happy Village, which helps very small farmers in Turkey take part in economies of scale and expand organic farming. Farmers are certified and sign a Farmer Code. Isik Organic then helps train farmers in organic methods.
5. Lil Bucks
What is it? Lil Bucks makes crunchy snacks and toppings out of sprouted buckwheat, available in Original, Cacao, Matcha and Cinnamon. The company also sells adaptogenic buckwheat clusters, which are low-sugar, grain-free functional snacks made from sprouted buckwheat and adaptogens.
Innovation: Buckwheat is a crop that survives in harsh weather seasons and can be included in crop rotations that contribute to healthy soil. Due to its fast growth, buckwheat is a good candidate for a catch crop when others have failed, and it also fits well into rotations. In addition, it is economical to produce because it requires no pesticides and few herbicides, draws phosphorus efficiently from the soil and needs less nitrogen.
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Rapist Freed Because Of Coronavirus Kills His Accuser Then Himself
There’ve been a few stories in recent months about criminals being released from prison due to coronavirus fears, and we now have at least one case where you could argue this was a huge mistake, after a rape suspect killed his accuser and then himself.
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Ibrahim Bouaichi, 33, had been charged with rape, strangulation and abduction after Karla Dominguez told police he sexually assaulted her in Alexandra, Virginia last October, according to the Washington Post.
Bouaichi surrendered himself to police and a judge ordered that he be held without bond. However, his lawyers successfully argued that it was ‘impossible’ to provide their client with social distancing and safety measures while in jail, and so convinced the judge to release him on a $25,000 bond on April 9 with the condition he only leave his Maryland home to meet with lawyers.
Less than a month later, Bouaichi was arrested again for ramming a police car. He was charged with first-degree assault and injuring a law enforcement dog. Surely they’d keep him in jail this time around, right? Nope – he was released again on May 11, because somehow police missed that he was the same person bailed out in connection with the aforementioned rape charge.
On July 29, Bouaichi went to Karla Dominguez’s apartment building and shot her dead. He then went on the run from police until they found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, from which he later died in a local Virginia hospital.
In a statement, Bouaichi’s lawyers said they were ‘certainly saddened by the tragedy both families have suffered’:
Unfortunately, the pandemic continued the trial date by several months, and we didn’t get a chance to put forth our case.
What an absolute shit-show. I know you’ve got to do your job as a lawyer but how can Bouaichi’s legal team sleep at night knowing they pushed for a dangerous, violent rapist to be released so that he could breathe clean, coronavirus-free air among the general public, which then allowed him to track down and kill the woman who accused him of rape. The lawyers and judge both have blood on their hands.
Amazingly, they almost let out the infamous Green River Killer too – a guy who raped and murdered 50 women (that we know about). Luckily, he lost by one vote.
Who knows how many other prisoners released due to COVID-19 fears have gone on to reoffend? Hopefully this case persuades judges to exercise a little bit more common sense from now on. Maybe some prisoners should be eligible for house arrest during the pandemic, but violent rapists should probably just stay in jail for the time being. Just seems like the safest bet, no?
To watch a tube passenger rip into an Instagram model for not wearing a mask on the London Underground, click HERE.
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Campbell McConnell - Catch Phrase Worlds
Campbell McConnell
Catch phrase worlds
“I hope you like animals cause I’m a beast”, “I don’t design clothes I design dreams”, “there are no mistakes, only happy accidents”
Whether it’s the business sector, the fashion industry, the art world or even on the tennis pitch, the one thing every profession has in common is their own vernacular when describing their achievements. They’re utilised in almost a territorial manner; if you know our slang, you’re one of us. There are even entire articles dedicated to this content, usually under similar titles to, "how to impress your boss" or "do you want to get a raise at work?" However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s appropriate or even that it makes sense.
This language is something that confuses and frustrates Campbell McConnell; he finds that the sincerity is wholly transparent and the specificity isolating. This frustration has given birth to 'catch phrase worlds', its seven parts filled to the brim with these meaningless blocks of text consisting of inaccurate metaphors and awful puns. At first glance the models appear well produced, each with distinct, recognisable features such as an easel, pigs and the Eiffel Tower. Yet, when the omnipotent camera allows the viewer a closer inspection, it is revealed that there’s an individual within the model who has been constructed without any of the precision displayed in the rest of the model. They too, like the environment, have discernible features that distinguish them such a tennis racket or a beret but they are poorly rendered and are merely referential in comparison to the skillfully executed structures within which they reside.
Perhaps this is McConnell’s point; from afar the overall appearance of this vague and exclusive language makes perfect sense. It uses all the same characters, and even the same words, nevertheless if one was to actually employ it themselves, they would struggle to understand what was coming out of their own mouth.
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Campbell McConnell works in a variety a methods including mixed media and performance. His performances regularly question notions of consumerism and the relationship between art and entertainment. Humor is an important aspect of his work, a tool that he uses to provide a different perspective on some of the more serious ideas he explores. Language, communication, and absurdity are themes that run throughout his practice. Some of the works create a lie within themselves, or a false vision, these works use many different truths to create a new, combined truth. | <urn:uuid:9b6ec975-ddf7-4e4c-a2bf-a76f1c5836b5> | https://www.sidandjim.com/campbell-mcconnell-info | en | 0.935272 | 0.023894 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Category Archives: Lindsay Lyon
Lindsay Lyon is a seasoned English and Theory of Knowledge teacher currently working at JIS. She and her husband have taught abroad as a teaching team for fifteen years in Venezuela, Thailand, China, Saudi Arabia, and now Indonesia. They write about expat life with a focus on money and savings in their blog The Haggard Lyon. Here you will find some of the same, and other musings from Lindsay on life overseas with kids, teaching, technology, and staying balanced in a busy world.
“Exciting” Expat
So why do it?
Why leave the country you were born in and grew up in to live your life overseas? Ask any international teacher and you may get a variety of answers. However, the one that will usually surface more than any other is “adventure”. What does that mean? Our friends at Wikipedia define it in part as “an exciting or unusual experience”. As I typed this in my last year in Saudi Arabia, I must admit thinking– my lifestyle choice is unusual…but exciting? Not so much.
What I have noticed about expats, including myself, after living in five foreign countries and visiting many others, is most expats recreate their western lives in the foreign city in which they live. There are very few expats who immerse themselves in the local customs, culture and language of the foreign country they find themselves in. Even those expats who marry locally never fully assimilate into the local community. While working and living in Thailand, I used to go to a local bar called the Tamarind and visit with other expat men, many who had married Thai wives. A few things struck me about them:
1. Many spoke very little Thai.
2. Many of them complained about the city/country they lived in and how it was substandard to the country they had come from.
3. Many times the Thai wives all sat together at one table chatting while the expat men sat at the bar carrying on about topics that were usually quite Western focused.
I guess this is not so unusual as it is very difficult to change from the culture you grew up. Additionally, once moving abroad many expats find they are even more proud of where they come from. We see this in the West as well. Sure, it is the melting pot, but for every person in that pot, there is most likely an area of the country, or city, or neighborhood that caters to his/her particular heritage, be it language, restaurants, grocery stores or entertainment. It’s most likely a good thing. This is what keeps different cultures rich and unique and thriving in a global society. Also, many expats simply don’t want to assimilate to the local culture. As much as Americans expect immigrants to assimilate to American culture, very few of those Americans would be willing or able to assimilate to another culture even if they lived in one. Many times, even if you wanted to, there simply isn’t enough time.
To adapt to a new culture, one that you may know very little about, takes a lot of time. Even for the expat who stays at a post for decades, this process is not a hasty undertaking. But for the international teacher, whose usual tenure is two to five years, there is simply not enough time to assimilate to the culture in which he lives, even if it is a priority. This does not mean he cannot appreciate and enjoy the local culture, but to move beyond that can prove rather difficult. So many expats are content with simply appreciating the local culture and taking advantage (in a good way) of any opportunities it may present. However, most still cling to the culture from which they came.
I noticed this first during that trip to Venezuela. While there, I was struck by how similarly decorated my future in-laws’ house was to most other Texas homes I had visited (they are originally from Texas). In addition to the decor, most everything else was Western – the dinners we ate were family favorites, the language we spoke was English and the channels on the TV were showing American sitcoms. Two years later when my wife and I coincidentally got teaching jobs in Venezuela, we too replicated a life similar to the ones we’d had in the U.S. I see nothing particularly wrong with this — it is most likely natural and healthy. However, I wouldn’t define it as exciting…..unusual, yes, but exciting, no.
The Real Excitement: Travel
If you were to ask most international teachers, they would most likely tell you that the exciting part does not necessarily come from where you live and work, but rather where you travel during those extended vacations so prevalent in the teaching field. Herein lies the irony. Much like the American couple who work, take care of kids and watch a bit of TV in the evening, the expat couple is doing the same thing. And just like the American couple who long to get away on vacation in order to experience a break from the monotony of life, the expat couple does the same. Since daily life….work, kids, dinner, sleep, repeat is a bit tedious, we all look forward to something different… adventure if you will. But for the average American this can be difficult. Whether it is our Puritan work ethic, financial responsibilities or just the feeling that the office cannot go on without us the average American takes only thirteen days of vacation a year. Less than two weeks for the entire year.
Is the all-inclusive vacation a reflection of this limited vacation time most Americans are granted? With an entire year to daydream about an adventure, about some excitement, about leaving the tedium of daily life, a holiday of overindulgence and extravagance starts to look pretty damned good. Whether it is or not is debatable, but the fact is that during the cycle of the weekly grind, looking forward to a little escape in our life is a guilty pleasure. And the international teacher is no different. The American worker in the cubicle may daydream about giving it all up and moving to Thailand to become a teacher (which, incidentally, is not that difficult to do), but even if he did, his life may not be that different. It would be an unusual experience sure, but exciting? Not likely. The international teacher, much like the cubicle dweller, also daydreams about vacations, about a break from the monotony of life. The difference is these folks have a lot more vacation time coming to them, whether they want it or not, and most do.
The top three things international teachers talk about when together are work, kids and vacations. In many places, this is all you may have to talk about. Holidays hold a special place in the heart of the international teacher. This IS the exciting component to the adventure they all craved when going into the profession. So they take them pretty seriously. If you ask a group of international teachers where they are going on holiday (internationally its holiday, not vacation), the responses are mind blowing. You will get a list of the most exotic and interesting places you could imagine. One winter holiday, I left my then-home in the Middle East to enjoy the sunny beaches of Sri Lanka. The list of places my colleagues went to included Finland, France, Italy, Australia, South Africa, India, Zambia and Kenya, as well as others.
The Cost of the “Excitement”
The price tag of these vacations is not something most teachers talk about, but it was refreshing to hear one teacher, when asked how is holiday was, respond with a dollar figure. “How was your trip?” I asked. “$8,000,” he replied. This couple had gone “home” for the winter break. Home to the expat is wherever he grew up and/or still has family. No matter that he’s not lived there for fifteen years; it’s still referred to as home. Many teachers do go “home” for the holidays, especially the long winter break, which is usually two to three weeks long. Almost all teachers go “home” for the summer. But this is not referred to as a holiday. This is just the annual two month break that we all grow to expect. To many it’s not seen so much as a holiday, but time extended family expects to see you since you’ve been away the entire year. However, once couples start having children, many feel the pull to head back not only for the summer, but also for the winter break. This is why my colleague answered the way he did. He went from Saudi Arabia to Canada and back in the span of eighteen days. Not only is this a grueling travel itinerary, but is obviously quite expensive. The eight grand was not just for the airline tickets, but all that comes with going home, especially during Christmas – presents for the family you never get to see, a bit of shopping for yourself and any other pleasures not available in your overseas home. Is $8,000 on the high end of travel for winter holiday vacations? Not necessarily. While I traveled to Sri Lanka for nine days and spent $4,000, the family that went to Finland shelled out $10,000.
Was it worth it? Depends who you ask. Not to the guy with jet lag and eight grand missing from his bank account. Not to me, who realized, as many parents with toddlers do, that nine days in a hotel room and nightly restaurant visits with small children is more punishment than holiday. But most would say yes. They saw family, they visited a new country…they finally had an adventure. Even the colleague who bemoaned the $8,000 vacation was, a few weeks later, in the same teacher’s lounge, in the same chair, talking excitedly about his Spring Break plans which included a trip to Thailand and a room with “a huge balcony and awesome ocean view”.
Sri Lanka First Trip
For the international teacher, the idea of not traveling during a holiday is unheard of. Why would you forego the opportunity to travel? Because it is difficult? That is irrelevant because seeing the world is what drew the international teacher to move abroad in the first place. And seeing the world isn’t always easy. To save money? Sacrilege. We are not here to save money, we are bigger than that. We are buying memories. You only live once. These are some of the responses I have gotten upon telling colleagues that I will not be going away during a break.
Saving and Investing: Exciting?
Seeking financial independence by saving and investing has about as much credence in the international teaching world as it does in the overbought, overextended suburbs of the United States. Most international teachers are no better with money than their U.S. counterparts. Most are still living the American culture of consumerism and consumption – albeit on the other side of the world. All they have done is replaced the McMansion and SUV, the embodiment of the skewed American Dream, with ridiculously-overpriced holidays to far-off destinations, which they believe symbolize what it means to “see the world”. Not only does this create an illusion of “living the dream,” more importantly, it robs them the opportunity to obtain financial independence and realize true freedom.
So, exciting expat? Yes, sometimes. But the cost is sometimes great and the wait long, just like it is for all working people out there.
Pets Abroad: Why we finally got a dog
Adelle the Dog
Living the nomad expat life, getting a pet of any kind is a big decision. That’s not to say that it isn’t always a big decision, but there are factors that might make it bigger than a different kind of life, like, say, living in your home country with family around.
In the past 15 years, my husband and I have had 7 cats (I think). The first one, Frodo, came with us from the States to Venezuela and then back to the States. Frodo found a home with a friend in the States because at that time I couldn’t imagine him traveling 35+ hours with us to Thailand when we moved to Phuket.
In Phuket, our first cat, Suzy, was super cool. Fun, loving, adventurous. So adventurous that she disappeared one day and we never knew what happened to her. Maybe she found a new home, maybe she was eaten by a king cobra or a monitor lizard in the lagoon behind our house. Who knows. We were sad.
Our next cat in Phuket, Sang Som, is still alive, as far as we know, and is living the dream in our old neighborhood. Our dear friends and neighbors “The Brits” took him after we left and he joined the pack of friendly dogs on Soi Namjai. But again, we left him behind.
In Saudi, we tried having cats with kids. The first one scratched my 6-month-old on the face and went straight back to his owner. The second one, “Mr. Kitty,” was sweet but older and simply did not suit our lives. He found a home with a former school employee who really needed a friend to keep him company in his new apartment.
Then we moved to Jakarta and got the most perfect cat: Jaka, named for our new city.
Jaka came to us as a kitten and was like a dog from the beginning. He followed the kids around, let my son carry him by the neck without scratching him, loved to play and be near us, and seemed to love us.
He was adventurous and would occasionally leave for a few days. He liked to be out at night carousing, but it seemed like he would always come back. Until he didn’t, this past December.
The Dog Decision
Heartbroken, I thought–this is it: time to get a dog. A dog will never leave us. Over the past years, we have seriously weighed the difficulty of this decision. Specifically:
1. We are travelers–what do we do with the dog when we travel?
2. Summers–we leave for 7 weeks plus. Again, is this mean to the dog?
3. Time and effort–all the regular questions. Who will get up with her? Who will walk her? Are we ready for the commitment?
4. Money–Dogs are a “luxury” expense anywhere, but if you are overseas, the costs are exponential when it comes to moving. Our dog is most likely going to live for 12+ years, and we probably have two more countries left in our careers. Is this something to seriously consider? Are we ready for the visas, paperwork, and possible quarantines that are in our future?
These are big things to think about, and because we recently moved, we put the decision on hold. But, after living in Jakarta for almost two years now, along with the sad disappearance of Jaka, we took the plunge, and enter sweet Adelle.
It seemed like we made the decision rather quickly, but we were able to only because we had done the research earlier and thought we understand the costs (time, money, effort).
It’s not unheard of for expats to have dogs, but it’s not the norm. We have never been afraid of being different, so here we are.
So far, here are the answers to our difficult questions:
1. Travel: We’re leaving her with the maid.
2. Summer: Same as above.
3. Time and Effort: As expected. Yes, it’s a lot, and it’s mostly me (the mom), which comes as no surprise. She is basically my “accidental child” who is making me young and tired again, but worth it in the end. (At least that’s what I’m telling myself).
4. Money: So far, not so bad, but she is tiny (still 4-5 pounds) and we are not moving. That expense will come later, and we will suck it up.
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Neverness (1988)
David Zindell
Highly Rated!
Contributed by Iwan Praton, Franklin and Marshall.
"[In this book], the Order of Pilots tries to tackle the Continuum Hypothesis. It's a long, strange, complex story, but it seems pretty certain that the author had some mathematical training. He tries to describe a situation where the act of constructing a mathematical proof has a physical effect on one's surrounding (e.g., making a Ship go). There are lots of mathematical jargon, used convincingly."
Contributed by Gary Dalkin
"I'm not a mathematician, so I can't vouch for the autheticity of the maths in this work, but there is a lot of it and it is key to the storyline. The `pilots' essentially use maths to navigate through a form of hyperspace. As for literary quality, as a former judge of the Arthur C. Clarke Award I'd offer my opinion that this is one of the most engrossing and intriguing SF novels I've read. Though the follow-up, The Broken God, is even better."
Contributed by Neville Pereira
"A Tour de Force! Zindell discards all the traditional SF tropes and had produced a body of work that is highly literate, strong on character and story ultimately unique. An overlooked work that deserves a much wider readership."
As you can see, this book has developed quite a following. To some, it is clearly a great work of art. I must admit, however, that I found it entirely unreadable. After the first few chapters I had little interest in continuing, having developed no affection for the characters or belief in the "reality" that they occupy. I wish I could have read further so that I could comment here on the mathematics in the book, but I will have to leave that for our guests. For example:
Contributed by Jake Kesinger, Texas Technical University.
Note: "The Continuum Hypothesis from _Neverness_ is not the Continuum Hypothesis of modern theory, but instead a statement on mappings and fixed points. There's a line in the book where the protagonist comments on this."
Contributed by Sarah-Marie Belcastro
The first hundred pages are really boring. It's simultaneously really sexist and semi-enlightened. I get the feeling that the author is trying to make a positive social comment, but failing. For example, almost every female character is described sexually, and the first several examples of female characters are courtesans. On the other hand, many societies are matriarchal, and the god-like character is female. Still, there's a mild slam at female mathematicians. This sort of commentary goes away after the first hundred and fifty pages, or so. In 450 pages, almost no specific mathematical concepts referenced, just lots of mathematical language used. Despite the fact that Ian Stewart lists (in Annotated Flatland) the book as one that uses dimensionality concepts, I couldn't find any.
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Ratings for Neverness:
Mathematical Content:
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Literary Quality:
4.41/5 (17 votes)
GenreScience Fiction,
MotifProving Theorems,
TopicFictional Mathematics,
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After a nice dinner I take you home. Be a the gentleman that I am I walk you to your door. I tell you that I had a really nice time and I would like to see you again if you would like that. You put your key in the door and unlock it. The whole time I am looking at your body thinking Man I would love to kiss all over your entire body. The urge gets to be to much and I walk up behind you. Push you forward up against the door. Start kissing the back of your neck. You try to turn around but I wont let you. I rub your shoulders with my hands and you relax and start to enjoy it. I slowly move my hands up and down your arms. I then move my hands around to the front. Your breast pushed up against the door. I slid my hands between your breast and the door. I feel that your nipples are starting to grow stiff. You let out a little sigh. I move in closer and press my body against yours. You can feel my hard erection on your ass. I slowly move one of my hands down your body while I still have one breast in the other hand keeping you pulled in close to me. My free hand I run up under your shirt and bra. I now have my hand on your nipple which is rock hard now. I pinch the nipple between my thumb and forefinger. You gasp with a small wimpier but the pain is good to you. I start rubbing my hard cock across your ass. You reach behind you and slid your hand between your sexy ass and my cock. You can feel my cock throbbing. By this time you have figured out what we both want. You open the door and pull me through. I shut the door and you turn around to face me. Our lips fall together. A couple of little kisses tasting what each others lips taste like. I part your lips with my tongue. We have a long wet kiss that seems like it's lasting forever. You now have me pushed to the door. My hands move down your back and firmly grab your sexy ass. Your hands make their way down my chest and start rubbing my cock again. Without stopping the kiss I start to undress you. One slowly button at a time. You are wanting me to just rip your shirt off. Finally I undo the last button and slid your shirt off. I then undo your bra and let it drop to the floor. I now have two hands full of magnificent breast. I kiss my way down. I kiss and lick on your breast until I find your hard nipple. I start sucking on it and your head rolls back with pleasure. You unbuckle my paints and slid your hand inside. You can feel the precum that has soaked through my underwear. You hold my wet dick and lead me to the bedroom. You pull my shirt off over my head and start kissing on my chest while pushing my paints to the floor. I push you back onto the bed. I lean over you still sucking on your hard nipples. I start moving my way down your body. Undoing your paints and sliding them off of you but never removing my lips from your body. I start kissing your inner thighs. You pussy juice has soaked your panties. I begin sucking you wetness from your panties.
I move your panties to the side by using my tongue. I search for your clit. When I find it I suck on it like giving you a blowjob. I pull your panties off and throw them on the floor. I take your legs and put them over my shoulders. Your pussy is flowing with juices now. I am sucking up every bit of it. I put my hands under your ass to pull you closer to my face. I'm sucking and teasing your pussy for 20 minutes. You can't hold it any longer. You start humping your hips up and down like you were fucking my face. Your legs get stiff and you squeeze my head in between your legs. You start to cum and it seems to last forever. You try to get away but I pull you back in for I am not done yet. Your gasping for air as I am sucking on your pussy. You push me away and roll me over on my back. You straddle my head with your legs. I can see your wet pussy still dripping and the glimmer of your cum that ran down your ass. You slowly place your throbbing pussy on my face and start moving up and down my face like you was ridding a hard dick. Each stroke you take I am licking from your clit to the back of your ass making sure I get every drop of your cum. You take my cock in your hands and bend over to start sucking on it. But the pleasure of me sucking your pussy is to much and you just lay there with my dick in your mouth. I reach down and take your head in my hands to hold your head still and then I start face fucking you while I suck and lick on your swollen pussy lips. I since that you are about to cum again. I pull your head all the way down on my dick. You start to cum the same time I start to cum in your throat. Neither one of us let a drop go to waste. When we are done, we just lay there wore out. You still on me with your head resting on my dick and your pussy inches from my face to where I can smell the enjoyment you had.
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I take your ass in my hands and pick you up and carry you to the bed while kissing your neck and breast. Gently lay you down on the bed and never taking my lips off your sexy body. Start working my way down your body. The closer I get I can smell your wetness growing stronger. Once I reach my target I kiss on your inner thighs and all around my treasure. I slowly kiss on one leg while lifting it over my shoulder. You raise the other leg over the other shoulder because you know what is coming. I run my hands your ass and pull you in closer. You can feel breathing on your wetness which is starting to drip . I start sucking on one lip and then move to the other. You reach down and hold the back of my head with a hand full of hair. I use my tongue to split your pussy lips and lick the inner you. You pull my head in harder so I don't miss a drop of your wetness. I reach up and take a breast in each hand. I work my way up until I find your clit. As my tongue rolls across a ladies natural pearl your ass tightens up and I know that I am there. I take your your clit and start sucking on it like a blowjob. Your breathing gets quicker and gets shorter. You pull my deeper into your soaking wet pussy. You start slowly start bucking your hips as if you was fucking my . Your back arches as you get closer to an orgasm. You tighten up you legs around my head. Moments before the climax you start start moving away from me. I reach you ass with both hands and drag you back to my mouth. The pleasure is to much for you. You pull my head as far in to your pussy as you can get it. Your legs start the shake and you start having a long hard orgasm that seems to last for minutes. gasping for air but I don't let up and keep sucking all the juices flowing from your body. You raise my head up and give a long wet kiss so that you can taste the pleasure that I have been tasting. Then you push my head back down to return to what I started. The second and third orgasm soon follow with a flush of wetness running down your ass. After I clean you up I roll over and we both take a much needed rest. As we lay there your body keeps having uncontrolled aftershocks until we are rested enough for round two.
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The way to Play Soccer – Basic Principles
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It sounds very easy truly don’t, but:
Which are the guidelines of soccer?
Just how do the guidelines of soccer impact how to play soccer?
What specific expertise will be required?
What techniques need to be utilized?
Do you know the actual characteristics required by soccer participants?
Do soccer participants require distinct exercise specifications?
What should I understand very first?
What formation is the perfect a single to get a group to make use of?
What to do initial
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The essential expertises which are necessary for soccer player are:
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to actually have good soccer capabilities, significant amounts of practice must build very good soccer skills a great deal of practice and determination is required. The key to establishing fantastic soccer capabilities is repetition. I suggest that participants do at the very least half an hour every day of sound training to develop these skills, such as juggling a soccer ball to make sure that their technical capability is of the sufficient common.
Techniques and formations:
Teamwork is critical in taking part in soccer and getting an effective understanding of getting into objective scoring placements and conversely the way a group can shield up against the opposition demands a romantic knowledge of the game and also of getting gamers to play employing diverse soccer formations.
Soccer Physical fitness:
Becoming Match for Soccer is equipped with a serious effect on the way to play soccer. I used to be inside a crew as soon as that had minimal specialized potential in comparison with the vast majority of squads within our league, but guess what we were athletes up inside the league strictly simply because we were the fittest staff inside the league and quite often won video games from the death moments, simply because we had been fit sufficient to “run the opposition away from their legs”. So in no way take too lightly the impact that fitness could have on the game.
Regulations of Soccer:
There are several forms of soccer, starting from mini soccer (3 a part) for the regular game of 11 a side. FIFA will be the globally regulating physique for soccer, and is particularly FIFA who management the legal guidelines from the game that dictate the way to play soccer from the policies viewpoint. Understanding the laws of your game comes with a bearing on everything you do, and gamers need to ensure they know the legal guidelines from the activity.
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